PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte affirmed his war on drugs and said the government would “not be disheartened, not be cowed, and not be overwhelmed” by the problem.

”I know our country is reeling from a multitude of problems,” said Duterte in his second State of the Nation Address in Congress on Monday.

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