MANILA - A group of Thailand-based Filipinos recently organized a forum to call for an end to President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war, saying the issue of extrajudicial killings was a "personal" one for them, as they sympathized with overseas Filipino workers who were forced to return home to bury their children.

Swiss buyout firm Partners Group has wrapped up its first investment in the Philippines — a stake in a business process outsourcing firm — early this year and is hungry for more deals.

"Oorah and Hooah to the soldiers of the Republic!" Rep. Biazon cheered at news of the neutralization of the principal bad guys in the Battle of Marawi, as the task of rebuilding the severely damaged city looms after the 5-1/2 month stadoff.

Hungry, destitute and scared, thousands of new Rohingya refugees crossed the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar early on Monday, Reuters witnesses said, fleeing attacks by Buddhist mobs and hunger that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing.

An aquatic robot called Avexis is being tested in Japan ahead of being deployed into the damaged core of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

The deaths of local terrorist leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omarkhayam Maute will seriously set back efforts to project the Islamic State as succeeding in efforts to expand in Southeast Asia after being driven out of strongholds in Iraq and Syria, the military chief said Monday.

A flying motorcycle that can hover above traffic and be used in rescue scenarios is to become part of the Dubai police force ahead of Expo 2020.

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has cited substantial progress made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in moving closer to creating a common market for a region tagged one of the world’s major growth drivers, but flagged the member-states' concerns over "inward-looking" policies of developed countries.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is tightening its watch on real estate loans from rural banks as part of a lookout for bubbles forming in the sector.

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) lifted the notice to airmen (notam) at Iloilo International Airport 2:00pm Monday (Oct. 16), nearly three days after it was forced shut by an accident involving a Cebu Pacific plane that veered off the runway.

Opposition lawmakers said the Pulse Asia survey showing majority of the Filipinos believe that extrajudicial killings take place in the course of the administration’s war on drugs countered the police's claim that many of those killed resisted arrest or “nanlaban.”

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that President Donald Trump had instructed him to continue diplomatic efforts to calm rising tensions with North Korea, saying “those diplomatic efforts will continue until the first bomb drops.”

While eight out of 10 Filipino back the Duterte administration’s “war on drugs,” majority also believe that extrajudicial killings are happening in the conduct of the campaign, results of the recent Pulse Asia survey showed.

'ASEAN cinemas are so vibrant and can stand shoulder to shoulder with the world’s best.'