Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is no stranger to making headlines in Hong Kong, where he has gone on spending sprees, eaten at fast-food chain Jollibee and delivered a surprise apology over a hostage crisis in Manila that left eight Hongkongers dead. The ex-leader sparked a media frenzy in the city again when alongside his…
HONG KONG (AP) — An unannounced trip by former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to Hong Kong set off speculations on Sunday that he may be trying to evade a possible arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court over his bloody crackdown on drugs while in power. Duterte and his daughter and incumbent vice president were…
By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said on Saturday she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assassinated if she herself were killed, prompting Marcos’ office to vow “immediate proper action”. In a dramatic sign of a widening rift between the two most powerful political families in the Southeast Asian…
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told a Senate inquiry Monday that he had maintained a “death squad” of criminals to kill other criminals when he was mayor of a southern Philippine city. Duterte, however, denied authorizing police to gun down thousands of suspects in a bloody crackdown on illegal drugs he…