A day after requesting U.S. troops leave the south of the country, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte hinted at interest in buying weapons from rivals China and Russia and rejected the idea of joint naval patrols in disputed areas of the South China Sea.
A new report indicates increasing concern among high-ranking officials in China that Venezuela’s economy may soon collapse, dragging an assortment of Chinese investment projects down with it.
The head of Indonesia’s anti-drug agency says he is hoping to boost police capabilities and wage a war on drug traffickers similar to the controversial work President Rodrigo Duterte has begun in the Philippines, adding that the life of a drug dealer was “meaningless.”
Singapore has become the first Asian country to document active local Zika transmission, confirming up to 115 locally acquired cases so far. The tropical island, long an attractive destination for Indian and Chinese tourists, threatens to take the epidemic ravaging Latin America and south Florida global.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is slated for a number of meetings with fellow heads of state next week, but none appear to appeal more to the newly minted president than his one-on-one with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Putin, he says, is a kindred spirit, “perhaps when it comes to girls.”
Medical experts tracking the spread of the Zika virus throughout the continental United States warn that the conditions for rapid mosquito reproduction necessary for an outbreak exist throughout the Gulf Coast states and stretch as far north as Maryland.
While her husband was entertaining an audience in Brazil dressed as the video game character Super Mario, Japanese First Lady Akie Abe was paying respects to the American soldiers killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
North Korea’s state-owned airline, Air Koryo, apparently pushed China’s civil aviation regulators beyond the limits of their patience with an emergency-landing incident last month. On Wednesday, China announced that Air Koryo’s operations would be limited until significant improvements in pilot training and maintenance are made.
Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to “whack… in the head” any representative of the United Nations’s Human Rights Committee sent to observe his nationwide push to eradicate drug crime, calling those concerned about human rights during the infancy of his tenure “stupid.”
Not taking the risk that Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s vows to kill all drug criminals are empty promises, eighteen mayors and dozens of police officials have turned themselves in to police after Duterte read a list of 150 wanted names in a speech Sunday.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), an armed Islamist guerrilla group, has stolen and burned hundreds of marijuana crops in a show of solidarity to President Rodrigo Duterte and a goodwill gesture to show their commitment to abiding by an ongoing peace accord.
Malaysian officials have confirmed a report that the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines 370, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, flew a path into the southern Indian Ocean on his flight simulator — a new piece of information that arouses suspicions once again on Shah’s state of mind when the plane disappeared two years ago.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, notorious for using profanity liberally towards others in politics, told an audience of soldiers Friday that his recent meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry went well but that U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg was a “homosexual” “son of a bitch” who “really annoys me.”
Two mayors have publicly surrendered and two others begged for private meetings with President Rodrigo Duterte to absolve themselves of alleged ties to drug crime, as the Philippines continues Duterte’s promised assault on drug traffickers and drug addicts who refuse treatment.
President Barack Obama defended his signature trade effort with Asia, explaining that he would continue to fight to pass the legislation, even though his party’s nominee, Hillary Clinton, changed her mind to oppose it.
In a speech riddled with references to God and barbs at the Catholic Church, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his promise to eradicate drug abuse from the Philippines through an aggressive law enforcement campaign against drug traffickers. He also announced a ceasefire with a communist militia.
Japan’s strict immigration laws have made it an oasis from Islamic terrorism, with a whopping 99 percent of Muslim refugee petition requests rejected. This has not immunized it from mass murder in general, however, as the latest massacre at a facility for the disabled proves.
Anti-American protesters stormed KFC locations in at least eleven Chinese cities this weekend to protest a ruling against China’s South China Sea claims at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, a verdict Beijing claims Tokyo and Washington manipulated in tandem.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has stated he will not abide by the Paris Agreement, an international climate change pact, calling the deal “stupid” and “absurd,” and accusing developed countries of “imposing” on less wealthy states after having committed their own share of environmental atrocities.
An estimated 60,000 Philippine citizens battling drug addiction have turned themselves in to police or rehabilitation centers since President Rodrigo Duterte, who won election on an anti-drug campaign, took office in May.
This story originally appeared in the South China Morning Post. China called on Japan not to get involved in the South China Sea disputes in a regional summit on Friday, where Beijing is also attempting to get support for its
The government of North Korea has announced that it will cease communicating with American officials through its mission in New York and instead shift to “relations under the wartime law of the DPRK,” following the announcement of the first direct sanctions on dictator Kim Jong-un by the American government last week.
Central American authorities have reportedly dismantled a human trafficking network dedicated to smuggling illegal migrants into the United States from terror-linked countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has warned imprisoned Chinese drug lords — and those still at large who have since left the Philippines — not to continue to disturb the peace in his nation, warning them that, should they remain active in the drug trade, “you will die.”
Islamic State terrorists hurled a grenade into Kuala Lumpur’s Cuban-themed nightclub Movida on June 28, injuring eight. Officials have confirmed it is the first successful ISIS attack in Malaysian history.
An editorial in the Chinese government-run newspaper, the Global Times, asserts that Beijing is “prepared for any military confrontation” with the United States or the Philippines in response to an expected verdict later this month on the Philippines’ territorial case against China at The Hague.
Rodrigo Duterte, the populist anti-drug mayor of southern Davao City, has been inaugurated as President of the Philippines. In his inauguration speech, a conciliatory Duterte vowed to fight petty crime, drug trafficking, and government corruption.
The Indonesian legislature has approved a nearly ten-percent increase in the nation’s defense budget following a visit by President Joko Widodo to Natuna Island, a territory on the cusp of China’s “nine-dash line,” unilaterally defining Beijing’s borders as extending into five other countries.
During a speech Monday, Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte — who has sworn off interviews with the press — reiterated his support for capital punishment as a retaliatory measure and not a deterrent, disparaging human rights activists and opponents of the death penalty as “stupid.”
Human rights researchers have published an updated study accusing China of conducting tens of thousands of organ transplants using the bodies of political prisoners without their consent. While the practice has been known to occur in the communist nation for decades, Beijing alleges that it long stopped harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience.
The Chinese government is touting the support of “dozens” of countries for its illegal colonization of the South China Sea, with particular praise for Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe’s statement opposing the arbitration of China’s territorial dispute in international court.
In her chic Beijing studio, 26-year-old Summer Liu relaxes on a sofa, admiring the pink vase she keeps full of fresh flowers. In the eastern city of Jining, Hu Jiying, 81, sits on an old bed that’s scattered with clothes, towels and half a bag of snacks, worrying about the cost of her medicine.
For nearly three-quarters of a century, America’s erstwhile allies in Europe and Asia have gotten a free ride on the American defense train. But Islamic terrorism and Donald Trump may be changing all that.
Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is boycotting the media following an international call for journalists to boycott his events in light of a remark in which Duterte asserted that many “son of a bitch” journalists slain on the job deserved to die.
Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, in a speech Saturday, encouraged armed civilians to arrest and kill drug dealers and violent criminals, even offering “a medal” to those who take it upon themselves to kill a criminal.
Chinese state media is promoting a live performance of a rap song called “Marx Is a Post-90s,” the Chinese term for a Millennial, which encourages Chinese youth to read Marx’s writings and embrace communism.
The president of Indonesia has signed a legal directive which will allow judges to rule that convicted pedophiles must undergo chemical castration, have a microchip implanted in them to allow complete government monitoring, or — in extreme cases — face the death penalty.
On Wednesday, South Korean officials rejected yet another call from Pyongyang for bilateral talks, as the communist Kim Jong-un regime pushes for a “reunification” plan that would put Seoul under his command.
The end of China’s one-child policy, which resulted in forced abortions and sterilizations for millions, has triggered a new crisis: parents are struggling to schedule medical appointments for their children due to the severe lack of pediatricians to address the population surge.
President Obama secretly met with Jack Ma, China’s richest man, yesterday, in a private event that was not on the president’s schedule.
