Philippine police have killed two people, including a woman on her way to hospital, after mistaking them for gunmen, authorities said Friday, the latest deaths at the hands of law enforcement under President Rodrigo Duterte.The incident occurred on Thursday night when police were called to a Manila suburb following an earlier shooting during an argument between residents.But they mistakenly opened fire on a van that they thought was carrying the shooter but which in fact was taking a woman in

Chief on the almanac for Cambodia next year is the general elections.

A Thai activist was briefly detained Thursday after trying to deliver a cheap watch to the junta number two, as the clock ticks down to a deadline for the general to declare his collection of luxury timepieces.Activist Ekachai Hongkangwan, whose stunts regularly skewer the military regime, told AFP he was "dragged" into a Bangkok police booth while trying to give a $30 watch to Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan.Prawit's apparent penchant for pricey timepieces has captivated the

Vietnam jailed 15 people on Wednesday for a foiled terrorism plot to detonate petrol bombs at the country's busiest airport ahead of a national holiday, state media reported. Terrorism attacks are rare in Vietnam, though the conservative communist government routinely jails dissident bloggers and human rights lawyers who are critical of the state.

For the past 20 years, labour migration has been a driving force behind the economic and social development of the Southeast Asian region and its people.

Southeast Asia is no stranger to acts of terrorism – from the 1975 hostage crisis in Kuala Lumpur perpetrated by the Japanese Red Army and, the recent bloody battle which took place in the southern city of Marawi in the Philippines. The latter is most likely the freshest incident in our minds. The siege of Marawi lasted 5 months, left more than 1,000 dead was the region’s first full-blown encounter with the terrors of the Islamic State (IS).

The death toll from a storm that unleashed landslides and floods across the southern Philippines has climbed to 240 with scores of others still missing, officials said Monday.Tropical Storm Tembin on Friday struck the country's main southern island of Mindanao, which often escapes the 20 or so storms that batter the rest of the archipelago nation each year.Civil defence officials said the number of confirmed deaths from Tembin on Mindanao's Zamboanga peninsula had risen to 78, while

During the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in November, Philippine President and ASEAN chair, Rodrigo Duterte announced that China has agreed to a binding Code of Conduct – building upon the previous non-binding Declaration of Conduct signed in 2002.The goal, in the words of Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang was to ensure that claimant countries in the South China Sea dispute would be able to ‘bolster mutual understanding and trust.’The progress was hailed as a huge milestone

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's eldest son resigned from his local government post Monday, citing allegations of links to drug smugglers which he denies and a bitter social media dispute with his own daughter.Paolo Duterte told the city council of Davao, a southern port where he serves as vice-mayor, that he was resigning because of "recent unfortunate events in my life" – citing family problems and allegations of drug smuggling."These among others, include the mali

North Korea has slammed recent sanctions over its missile tests as an “act of war” on Sunday, its first response to the latest diplomatic move to punish Pyongyang's ever-accelerating weapons drive. "We fully reject the latest UN sanctions...