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PHILIPPINES SECRET DEATH SQUADS: OFFICER CLAIMS POLICE TEAMS BEHIND WAVE OF KILLINGS
In his Manila brothel the police officer admits that he too contemplates that very point... READ MORE›
BARACK OBAMA CANCELS MEETING AFTER PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT CALLS HIM 'SON OF A WHORE'
Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with the president of the Philippines after Rodrigo Duterte appeared to call him a son of a whore ... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINE LEADER DIRECTS AN EXPLETIVE AT OBAMA
Mr. Obama had planned to meet Mr. Duterte in Laos, but the White House said early Tuesday that the meeting had been canceled... READ MORE›
OBAMA CALLS OFF MEETING WITH PHILIPPINE LEADER AFTER 'WHORE' JIBE
Mr Duterte was responding to the US president's promise to raise the issue of drug-related extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at their meeting... READ MORE›
POTTY-MOUTHED PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT DUTERTE GIVES E.U. THE MIDDLE FINGER
On Tuesday, during a speech to local business executives in his hometown of Davao City, he took aim at the European Union with irreverent gusto... READ MORE›
DUTERTE DUMPS THE US: WHAT COULD BE LOST?
The US is the Philippines' third-largest trading partner after Japan and China... READ MORE›
WE KILLED FOR DUTERTE, FED BODY TO CROCODILE
1 of 10 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad x Who is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte?... READ MORE›
DUTERTE TELLS OBAMA 'SON OF A WHORE' REMARK WASN'T PERSONAL
Duterte made his initial remarks following weeks of criticism from the US against extrajudicial killings in the Philippines' bloody drug war... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINES' DUTERTE DENIES GIVING DEATH-SQUAD ORDERS
'Accusations of madman' In a separate news report, Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte also denied the allegations, calling the witness a madman ... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT CALLS OBAMA 'THE SON OF A W****' AS HE REFUSES TO BE LECTURED ON HUMAN RIGHTSA
Duterte has angrily rejected criticism from the Catholic Church, human rights groups, legislators and the United Nations... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT DUTERTE TELLS OBAMA TO 'GO TO HELL'
President Rodrigo Duterte gives a fist-bump gesture during his visit to the Philippine army's Camp Mateo in Rizal province east of Manila on Aug. 25... READ MORE›
'I'D BE HAPPY TO SLAUGHTER' MILLIONS OF DRUG ADDICTS
Noting that Hitler had murdered millions of Jews, Duterte said There are three million drug addicts in the Philippines ... READ MORE›
TENSIONS OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA BELIE SUMMIT CORDIALITY
China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei claim parts or all of the resource-rich South China Sea, making it a hot spot of regional tension... READ MORE›
ABE COULD PLAY PEACEMAKER ROLE AFTER PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT STIRS ANGER VOICES REGRET FOR OBAMA INSULT
Heydarian noted that Japan has close ties with the Philippines, which have only grown amid China's bellicose moves in the South China and East China seas... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINE GANG LEADERS SAY DUTERTE CRITIC TOOK BRIBES
Imprisoned group says it was asked to raise cash through drug sales to fund Senate campaign of Leila de Lima... READ MORE›
THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES SAYS MANY SLAIN JOURNALISTS DESERVED IT
Many slain journalists in the Philippines had been corrupt and had done something to warrant being killed, the country's president-elect said... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINES' RODRIGO DUTERTE LIKENS HIMSELF TO ADOLF HITLER, WANTS TO KILL MILLIONS OF DRUG USERS
Mr Duterte has previously likened himself to the late dictator Idi Amin Dada who was accused of gross human rights violations and killings while ruling Uganda... READ MORE›
NEW CHINESE VESSELS SEEN NEAR DISPUTED REEF IN SOUTH CHINA SEA
In a sweeping ruling against China on the South China Sea in July, an international tribunal in The Hague focused on Scarborough Shoal... READ MORE›
REPORTING ON LIFE DEATH AND CORRUPTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
I came to see Southeast Asia as a land of great people and bad governments, of remarkable graciousness but distressing levels of impunity... READ MORE›
CHINA DESERVES RESPECT IT NOW ENJOYS[1]
In terms of the South China Sea issue, Duterte said he prefers negotiation to confrontation... READ MORE›
SEA DISPUTE CAUSES A RIFT AS OFFICIALS MEET IN ASIA
Mr. Carter met with China's minister of defense, Chang Wanquan, on Tuesday in Malaysia, where the South China Sea was high on the agenda... READ MORE›
LYFT JOINS WITH ASIAN RIVALS TO COMPETE WITH UBER
In September, Lyft teamed with Didi Kuaidi, the Chinese ride-hailing behemoth, to provide service to Chinese Didi Kuaidi app users who enter the United States... READ MORE›
RODRIGO DUTERTES TALK OF KILLING CRIMINALS RAISES FEARS IN PHILIPPINES
While Mr. Duterte has denied any direct knowledge of death squads, he has long called for addressing the Philippines' severe crime problem by killing suspected criminals... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT CREATING UNCERTAINTY CAUSING DISTRESS US DIPLOMAT SAYS
Beijing's claims to South China Sea rejected by international tribunal Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world... READ MORE›
U.S. PROTESTS CHINESE ACTION IN S. CHINA SEA
U.s. protests after chinese military jet lands on south china sea island... READ MORE›
CHINA APPEARS TO BE WORKING ON THIRD AIRSTRIP ON DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLETS
A new airstrip at Mischief Reef would be particularly worrying for the Philippines, a rival claimant in the South China Sea... READ MORE›
AFTER THE SLUR AND SNUB -- FINALLY A HANDSHAKE BETWEEN OBAMA AND PHILIPPINES' RODRIGO DUTERTE
Multiple news outlets in the Philippines reported that Duterte's daughter recently suffered a miscarriage... READ MORE›
SOUTH CHINA SEA ROW TOPS ASEAN SUMMIT AGENDA
Asian leaders have played down tensions over the South China Sea in a carefully worded summit statement In Vientiane, Laos... READ MORE›
'IN TIME, THIS WORLD WILL BE CHINA'S'
The other brother, a stockier man with an altogether calmer disposition, looked squarely at me and said, matter-of-factly In time, this world will be China's... READ MORE›
THE CONTROVERSIAL NEW PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES IS NOW URGING THE PUBLIC TO KILL DRUG ADDICTS
The newly elected Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, urged a crowd of about 500 people on Thursday to kill drug addicts, according to the Guardian... READ MORE›