News about Rodrigo Duterte. Commentary and archival information about Rodrigo Duterte from The New York Times.

MANILA - A Philippine court has nullified an earlier decision of a lower court to acquit former senator Leila de Lima – who has just won a seat in Congress – on a drug case, a fresh setback ...

Mr Duterte’s allies in Congress paraded in their public hearings narcotics kingpins who said in exchange for the money they supposedly gave Ms De Lima, they got unfettered access to luxuries ...

Progressive political group Akbayan, which includes Marcos-Duterte critic, Senator Risa Hontiveros, was the surprise leader in the party-list elections for the House of Representatives.

Three or four prosecution witnesses in the coming trial in The Hague of former president Rodrigo Duterte for crimes against humanity are now under the government’s witness protection program, Justice ...

Embattled Philippine journalist Maria Ressa pleaded not guilty Wednesday to tax evasion, as President Rodrigo Duterte's government faced growing calls to drop all charges against the veteran reporter.

High-profile Philippine journalist Maria Ressa was convicted Monday in a cyber libel case that press freedom advocates have branded a ploy to silence critics of President Rodrigo Duterte.

As former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte attended a congressional inquiry into his deadly war on drugs, his supporters shared an old image they falsely claimed showed a fierce critic wetting ...

Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, whose news site has repeatedly clashed with President Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested in her Manila office on Wednesday in what press freedom advocates branded an ...

MALACAÑANG on Thursday said the Philippine government would not cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) if it would order the interim release of former president Rodrigo Duterte. In ...

A Philippine court has nullified an earlier decision of a lower court to acquit former Senator Leila de Lima on a drug case, a fresh setback for one of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte's critics who ...