The country’s reelection to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has silenced President Duterte’s critics “who have been bellyaching about human rights non-issues ever since he won the presidency in 2016,” a senior lawmaker said yesterday.

President Duterte has formalized the appointment of Commission on Higher Education officer-in-charge J. Prospero de Vera as CHED chairman.

Agrarian Reform Secretary John Castriciones will stay in his position instead of running in the coming 2019 national elections.

Malacañang has not ruled out President Duterte joining rallies of administration candidates once the campaign period starts next year.

Foreign investors and businesses are being favored over homeless residents in the government's slow-moving rehabilitation of Marawi City, a year after President Rodrigo Duterte declared it "liberated" from terrorists, a Bangsamoro activist group said on Tuesday.