will review these thousands of other cases too," Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told Reuters

MANILA( Reuters)-The Philippine justice secretary pledged on Tuesday to launch an investigation after a forensic pathologist said some death certificates issued for victims of the country's crackdown on drugs had been falsified to show they died of natural causes. The Southeast Asian country has come under international pressure to hold a thorough probe of the more than 6, 000 people killed by police since President Rodrigo Duterte launched a" war on drugs" after coming to power in 2016. Forensi

" Prosecutorial discretion will always be guided by these legal principles and the facts obtaining in any given case, regardless of the persons involved," Guevarra said....

MANILA( REUTERS)-Philippine activists and the families of victims in a drug war that has killed thousands view with dread the possibility of President Rodrigo Duterte staying on as vice-president for six more years after his time in the top job ends next year. The Constitution bars a re-election bid by Mr Duterte, 76, but he said on Tuesday( Aug 24) he would run for vice-president in 2022 in order to keep up his crusade on insurgency, criminal activities and drug dealers." For four years, we hav

MANILA( PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ ASIA NEWS NETWORK)-What is the state of the Philippines as it prepares for general elections in May 2022?... They appear to have been impacted by Malaca？... ang's moves on such news outlets as Rappler and ABS-CBN." Most people, from north to south, say it is dangerous for media people to be critical of the administration," Inquirer columnist Mahar Mangahas wrote last week, citing results of surveys undertaken by Social Weather Stations....