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President Duterte's War on Drugs was launched to save our families and rescue our communities. Four years later, we check in on the leaders of both.

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PH has had one of the longest and toughest lockdowns in Asia. Quarantine violators were at times humiliated or beaten by law enforcers. Atty. Ted Te talks about government's use of force in this mini series.

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Poverty incidence in the PH has been improving in recent years. But it only took a few months under lockdown for 1.5 million Pinoys to be pulled back to poverty.

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As art is being presented as an online experience, what experiences are lost? Do we stand to gain anything from the absence of a physical space.  We talk to art journalist and independent curator Gwen Bautista about how this critical time is transforming our own encounters with art.

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Some subscribers may be experiencing poor internet connection this week due  to an emergency cable maintenance in the Pacific. And, what ever happened to that million dollar bank heist in 2016 that was traced back to the Ph? PCIJ tells us more.

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Facebook took down dozens of fake accounts and pages because of "coordinated  inauthentic behavior." And starting October, new restrictions on music live streaming on Facebook and Instagram will take effect.

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Red-tagging  of journalists, lawyers and human rights advocates continued during the lockdown. And now authorities have taken that extra step of accusing  critics of being terrorists. Atty. Ted Te shares how this impacts our rights and freedoms.

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President Duterte affirms the Philippines' legal victory vs Beijing in the South China Sea. AND Taiwan, the first country to close its borders during the pandemic, is slowly re-opening.

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Pool testing is a method that combines samples from multiple people and carries out the test on one batch. The Philippine government said it is considering using pool testing to multiply testing capacity by 10. Pero effective ba ang pool testing? At kaya ba natin itong gawin? We asked  genomic data scientist DJ Bandoy in this Teka Teka news segment called COVID Corner.

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Today marks the 48th year since the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos placed the  entire Philippines under martial law rule. What lessons have we learned since then? AND another outbreak in China? Should we be worried?

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