Philippines

Paolo Duterte stepped down as Davao city's vice mayor on Christmas day after months of accusations that he was involved in illegal drug trade.

Many of the victims of the blaze at the Davao shopping centre were suspected of being trapped in a call centre office in the building.

Philippines Storm Tembin: Abdulsalam Binang Amerhasan eaten by crocodile while trying to flee rising water on island of Palawan.

Philippines Storm Tembin kills more than 180 on Mindanao island - latest typhoon from Pacific to strike the island country after Kai-Tak.

Casualties feared as the Philippines coast guard is leading the rescue operations in the waters, located 70kms from Manila.

Storm Kai-tak pounds Philippines, leaves over 30 dead and dozens missing in island province of Biliran after triggering severe flooding and landslides.

Search continues for little girl knocked unconscious and dumped by drunken dad in the forest. Felipe Eranzo now facing child abuse charges.

Australian photojournalist Ted McDonnell documents life in Happyland, a ramshackle collection of shelters built around a rubbish dump outside Manila.

When asked whether he would impose a nationwide martial law to combat terror, the Phillipines president said "all options are on table".

The Philippines president argued martial law powers are necessary to root out the extremists who have been regrouping after the military campaign.

The Philippines president warns the industrialisation and urbanisation should move beyond the capital as Manila will soon hit a saturation point.

Rights group Amnesty International earlier said there have been serious human rights violations committed by Filipino soldiers in Marawi.

"The truth has never been his strong suit," one Twitter user wrote.

The US president said his gruelling five-nation tour has been "tremendously successful" touting unconfrimed dollar figures.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and US President Donald Trump met officially on the sidelines of the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit.

US President Donald Trump has offered to moderate talks between the multiple claimants in the South China Sea dispute.

The Philippines controversial president Rodrigo Duterte said he stabbed a person to death as a teenager.

The firebrand leader has often faced criticism for his violent war on drugs and numerous extra judicial deaths allegedly meted out by his security forces.

Dionisio Santiago is the successive chairman of Dangerous Drugs Board to face an unceremonious exit.

Some of the websites compromised belong to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China's BDStar and the Armed Forces of the Philippines among others.

Russia donated around 5,000 guns and other weapons to the Philippines to fight Islamic terror as the Kremlin also seeks to boost its military presence in Southeast Asia.

Air strikes, artillery and machine-gun fire have left the lakeside city of Marawi in the southern Philippines a smouldering wasteland of shattered buildings and bullet-pocked mosques and houses.

Duterte urges public to remain vigilant as the remnants of Islamists could come back to launch fresh attacks.

In pictures: The siege of Marawi has finally come to an end after one final fierce gunfight with a group of militants holed up in the shattered city.

Russian and Filipino navy officials said that the warships unloaded some 5,000 assault rifles, a million rounds of ammunition and 20 army trucks.

Photos show fighting is still going on in Marawi long after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared it had been liberated from Islamist militants.

Philippines Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute were dead and the Marawi siege could end soon.

The Philippines president Duterte also said he is declaring a "revolutionary government" and would be happy to cut all ties with the EU.

The firebrand Philippines president asks the European ambassadors not to return to his country again.

The Philippines defence department used the Taiwan defence ministry logo instead of China's on a banner displayed at an official ceremony.