(UPDATED - 7:45 p.m.) MANILA, Philippines - President Donald Trump raved about the “incredible Filipino hospitality” and his host President Rodrigo Duterte, on his...

Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar are working punishing hours for paltry pay in Bangladesh, with some suffering beatings and sexual assault, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has found.

US President Donald Trump pitched for “friendship and partnership” between the United States and member-nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), affirming that his government seeks its partners to be strong, independent and prosperous.

Beyond the government-declared week-long holidays in Metro Manila in the duration of the ASEAN meetings, this is an opportune time to note how ASEAN has only been “One Communty” for the big players of the global market and not for the region’s peoples:

President Rodrigo Duterte announced Monday that Southeast Asian nations have agreed to sign a consensus that would protect and promote the right of migrant workers, drawing praise from labor groups.

The artist said he created the figure to welcome the US president to the Philippines.

(UPDATE 2, 7:30 P.M) Dozens of protesters and some policemen were injured Monday when security forces forcibly dispersed, with truncheons and water cannons, a phalanx of anti-Trump activists who were trying to advance nearer the US Embassy as the 31st ASEAN Summit and related meetings opened a few kilometers away.

(UPDATED) Staunch Duterte supporter and blogger Sass Rogando Sasot confronted BBC Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head Monday afternoon over BBC's move to give attention to administration critic Jover Laurio even though she was just a "minor blogger."

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has expressed his country's willingness to support the development of infrastructure in ASEAN, particularly airports, sea terminals, railroads, highways, tubes, powerlines, and "what is very important now in any country," high-speed communication channels.

A draft of the statement to be issued after a Southeast Asian summit makes no mention of the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state following a military crackdown that has been described by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing.

An elderly former priest who was a rebel negotiator during the short-lived talks with the first Aquino administration has been missing with two of his farm workers since they were seized allegedly by state agents in Oslob, Cebu on November 9, the human rights group Karapatan said.

Southeast Asian nations will not take a relative calm in the dispute over the South China Sea for granted, according to a draft of a statement to be issued during a summit meeting in Manila on Monday.

Islamic State militants on Monday regained control of Albu Kamal city, their last stronghold in Syria, after Iranian-backed militias who captured the city a few days earlier were ambushed and forced to retreat, tribal leaders, residents and a war monitor said.

A true revolution is the revolution of a Mandela, Bonifacio, Gandhi, Sun Yat Sen, Washington, Bolivar, Walesa, and, yes, Cory Aquino. It is a struggle for liberty based on the respect for human rights, equality and moral integrity.

Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, seven city officials and two representatives from an environment watchdog will travel to Japan next week.