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🇵🇭 🏀 Are Filipino basketball players getting taller? | Al Jazeera English

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People in the Philippines love basketball and wish their team played better. Many feel it’s the country’s short stature that’s holding it back. But is a nationwide “growth spurt” about to change that? Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports from Manila. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

The Philippines’ Baby Factory | 101 East

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The Philippines’ Baby Factory: They call it the “baby factory”. At the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in the Philippines’ capital, Manila, an infant is born every 12 minutes. Many of the new mothers are teenagers, some just 13. This devoutly Catholic nation, where abortion is illegal, is the only Asian country where teenage pregnancy has increased in the last two decades. Authorities say they want to reduce the birth rate, but the fight to make contraception readily available has been plagued by setbacks. 101 East investigates why children are having babies in the Philippines and meets some of the country’s youngest mothers. More on 101 East: Facebook: http://facebook.com/101east Twitter: […]

Philippine’s Rodrigo Duterte offers to take in refugees

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Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president, says he will personally take in any refugees. The controversial president made the offer while providing Al Jazeera’s 101 East with behind the scenes access to his government.

Rodrigo Duterte on drugs, death and diplomacy | Talk to Al Jazeera

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It’s been about 100 days into the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte. Since he took power, the Philippine president has overseen the killing of more than 3,500 people in his war on drugs, offended world leaders and strained relations with the US. In an exclusive first interview since he was sworn in, we talk to Duterte about his controversial war on drugs and foreign policy – including deteriorating relations with the United States and potentially warming relations with China. “We have three million drug addicts, and it’s growing. So if we do not interdict this problem, the next generation will be having a serious problem … You destroy my country, I’ll […]

Exclusive: Philippines president Duterte to continue war on drugs

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The Philippine president has promised to investigate extra-judicial killings as part of his war on drugs. Three and a half thousand people have been killed so far. But in his first interview since his inauguration, Rodrigo Duterte told Al Jazeera the campaign against alleged criminals will go on. Al Jazeera’s Wayne Hay reports from Manila. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/