The billionaire chairman of Hong Kong developer Henderson Land said he will donate HK$1 billion ($128 million) to charity after the city’s benchmark index surpassed the 30,000-point level, keeping a pledge he made seven years ago.

The United Nations said on Thursday a group of experts on freedom of expression will visit Mexico at the end of November to assess the safety of journalists in the country, one of the most dangerous in the world for reporters.

Lawyers for Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, have told Trump’s legal team they can no longer discuss a probe into Russian meddling in the U.S. election, indicating Flynn may be cooperating with the investigation.

Resuming talks with communist rebels remains the best option for the Duterte government if it wants to achieve lasting peace in the country, a religious leader said.

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Atty. Larry Gadon, in his testimony, claimed that he knew of the Chief Justice Sereno’s misconduct in the issuance of a temporary restraining order because a reporter told him so. That reporter also told him that the source of this information was Associate Justice Teresita De Castro who, later, denied being the source.

Three United Nations human rights experts, including special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Agnes Callamard, have again called on the government to end the killings associated with its war on drugs and ensure accountability.

Eight years since 58 persons, 32 of them media workers, lost their lives in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre, a Malacañang official said the first convictions of those accused of the mass murder could be expected in four more years.

(UPDATE - 1:10 p.m.) President Rodrigo Duterte formally terminated peace negotiations with communist rebels and was promptly accused of wasting “an opportunity to achieve a just and lasting peace for the people.”

'We fully support the dialogue sparked by this incident and condemn all forms of sexual harassment.'

Pope Francis visits Myanmar next week, a delicate trip for the world’s most senior Christian to a majority Buddhist country accused by Washington of the “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya people.

"Duterte´s bloodlust and mania for mass murder are boundless. He expects to wipe out through arbitrary arrests, torture, indefinite detention and massacre of suspected revolutionaries and legal social activists both the armed revolutionary movement and the legal democratic movement in order to set up a fascist dictatorship."

Unemployment among Filipino youth is expected to rise, even as they are forced to grapple with how new technology affects the kinds of jobs that will be available in the future. They will need skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity.

A day after getting his newly minted second title as presidential adviser on human rights, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said Thursday mere "conspiracy" with communist rebels could be basis for arresting and filing rebellion cases against the so-called "legal fronts" of the Communist Party of the Philippines.