Rappler ordered to shut down

Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa's news company Rappler was ordered yesterday to shut down, a day before President Rodrigo Duterte is due to leave office, but she vowed to keep the site running. Ressa has been a vocal critic of Duterte and the deadly drug war he launched in 2016, triggering what media advocates say is a grinding series of criminal charges, probes and online attacks against her and Rappler.  "We continue to work, it is business as usual," Ressa told reporters, adding "we can only hope for the best" under Duterte's successor Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Marcos Jr, the son of the Philippines' former dictator who presided over widespread human rights abuses and corruption, takes over from Duterte today.