WHAT WENT BEFORE: The coco levy funds

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 23:24:40 +0000

MANILA, Philippines — Several coconut levy-related measures seeking to create a trust fund to benefit coconut farmers were proposed during the previous Congresses, but these were not enacted into law.

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WHAT WENT BEFORE: ‘True Narcolist’ video

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 23:24:30 +0000

MANILA, Philippines — On April 2, a six-minute video titled “Ang Totoong Narcolist (True Narcolist) Episode 1” was posted on Facebook, showing a hooded man who claimed President Duterte’s son Paolo Duterte received payoffs from a drug syndicate.

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WHAT WENT BEFORE: ‘Oplan Tokhang’

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:24:16 +0000

On Dec. 5, 2017, the Supreme Court ordered the Philippine National Police and Solicitor General Jose Calida to submit to the tribunal the official police investigation reports on the killings of more than 4,000 suspects in President Rodrigo Duter Duterte’s war on drugs.

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WHAT WENT BEFORE: Crystal meth facilities in PH

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:40:45 +0000

Authorities have seized multimillion pesos worth of “shabu” (crystal meth) in the recent years, most of which came from facilities operated by Chinese nationals.

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WHAT WENT BEFORE: ‘Your bishops, kill them’

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:21:52 +0000

WHAT WENT BEFORE: ‘Your bishops, kill them’

In a speech in Malacañang last December, President Rodrigo Duterte said the people should kill bishops because all they did was criticize him on his brutal war on drugs.

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WHAT WENT BEFORE: The Northrail Project

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:42:06 +0000

The Northrail Project of the Arroyo administration has been revived as the Philippine National Railway Clark (PNR Clark), one of the “big-ticket projects” of the Duterte administration.

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