On his second year in power, President Rodrigo Duterte remains highly popular among Filipinos, a political analyst said Saturday. Filipinos continue to have a “largely positive” perception of the firebrand leader despite criticism from different sectors, political analyst Ramon Casiple said as quoted by ABS CBN News. As the Duterte administration was entering its second year, the Bureau of Customs made one of its biggest drug busts, involving 604 kilos of shabu, valued at P6.4-billion, in warehouses in Valenzuela City, Philstar Global reports. Two years into Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency, the Philippines’ once-celebrated economy is beginning to display vulnerabilities, writes Richard Heydarian for Nikkei Asian Review.