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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›
DUTERTE DUMPS THE US: WHAT COULD BE LOST?
The US is the Philippines' third-largest trading partner after Japan and China... 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›
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›
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›
BEIJING'S CLAIMS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA REJECTED BY INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL
The islands in the South China Sea have been Chinese territories since ancient times, he said, according to state media... 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›
BEIJING REMAINS ANGRY, DEFIANT AND DEFENSIVE AS KEY SOUTH CHINA SEA TRIBUNAL RULING LOOMS
China's nine-dash line, a version of which first appeared on its maps in 1947, loops through the vast majority of the South China Sea... 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›
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›
IN DEFEAT FOR BEIJING, HAGUE COURT TO HEAR SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE
Beijing claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea, dismissing claims to parts of it from Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei... READ MORE›
LANDSLIDE FEARS AS TYPHOON LASHES PHILIPPINES
EST December 7, 2014 Residents walk in a flooded street after Typhoon Hagupit made landfall, in Borongan city, Samar island, Philippines... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS LIKELY TO SPREAD ACROSS ASIA, SAYS WHO
Infections of the Zika virus are highly likely to keep spreading across Asia and the Pacific, the World Health Organization WHO warns... READ MORE›
SOUTH CHINA SEA ROW OVERSHADOWS ASEAN SUMMIT
The Philippines has released pictures purportedly showing Chinese boats near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea... READ MORE›
TYPHOON ROARS INTO PHILIPPINES, PROMPTING EVACUATIONS ON CHRISTMAS DAY
A late-season typhoon roared ashore in the Philippines on Christmas Day, prompting widespread evacuations because of fears of flooding and landslides... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE 'WILL NOT INTERFERE' OVER EXECUTION OF MARY JANE VELOSO
Well, I may just have to ask Indonesian President Joko Widodo in a most respectful and in very, very courteous way... READ MORE›
OBAMA FOCUSES ON SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE AHEAD OF APEC
US President Barack Obama has put a firm focus on the South China Sea dispute, as an economic summit of Asia Pacific nations begins in Manila... READ MORE›
WHY IS THE PHILIPPINES SUING CHINA OVER THE SOUTH CHINA SEA?
Secondly, the Philippines wants the court to rule on exactly what territorial claims in the South China Sea their country is owed under UNCLOS... READ MORE›