The Duterte administration has unveiled a P1-trillion nationwide pipeline of railway projects, most of which will be located in Luzon and Metro Manila where traffic congestion was at its worst, apart from urban centers in Cebu and Mindanao.
Commission on Human Rights Chairperson said that the Philippines will face the U.N. in April 2017 for a periodic review of its human rights record over the past five years. | CNN Philippines
According to Inquirer, the president wants to scrap the party-list system because for Duterte party-lists “abused” the system, with the rich organizing groups of their own.
Philippine Government (GPH) Panel Chair Secretary Silvestre Bello III confronted a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front (CPP-NDF) panel following the New People’s Army’s (NPA) alleged ambush of government forces.