Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday urged police to kill dozens of drug suspects every day, as he praised officers who shot dead 32 people this week in "shock and awe" raids.Duterte's incendiary comments came as he acknowledged major problems in his drug war, which has claimed thousands of lives, admitting he could not win it as quickly as promised and lamenting a corrupt police force.In one of the deadliest operations of the war, police reported killing 32 people

Three years ago, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 passengers went missing over the South China Sea.Two reports prepared by Geoscience Australia and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) were released today on the information regarding the search for MH370.

A kerosene lamp flickers beside a Macbook in a jungle camp as ageing Philippine communist leader Jaime Padilla plots the next step in one of Asia's oldest insurgencies with a new generation of fighters.Fuelled by one of the world's starkest rich-poor divides, a Maoist rebellion that began months before the first human landed on the moon plods on even though the country now boasts one of the world's fastest-growing economies."There's a big pool of young people who will

Philippine police killed at least 21 people in a series of raids near the capital Manila, in the bloodiest night of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, official records showed on Tuesday.Duterte won a landslide victory in presidential elections last year after promising an unprecedented war on drugs in which tens of thousands of people would be killed.The raids from Monday to Tuesday resulted in the single largest death toll in one night of police operations since officers killed 1

Every human deserves equal opportunity and treatment to life, liberty, equality and security. Advocating human rights is important in addressing the people’s basic needs (such as food, clothes, housing and education) and protection of their basic rights and freedom from abusive powers. Promising to promote and protect human rights in 10 of its member countries, ASEAN established the ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission of Human Rights (AICHR) in 2009.

A prominent student leader on Tuesday pleaded guilty to defaming Thailand's royal family by sharing a news story about the kingdom's new monarch on Facebook, his lawyer said.Jatupat "Pai Dao Din" Boonpatararaksa, 25, is the latest anti-junta activist to be hit with the country's draconian lese majeste law which bans any criticism of the monarchy.The law, which carries up to 15 years in jail per charge, has been wielded with increased ferocity under Thailand's mil

The Philippines is considering potential ways to jointly develop oil and gas resources with China in a disputed part of the South China Sea, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano.Any joint ventures would conform to Philippine law and wouldn’t lead to the loss of Philippine territory, Cayetano told a House of Representatives hearing on Tuesday in Manila.