Duterte war on drugs claims second child's life, Obama scraps meeting
Althea Barbon's death came only days after a five-year-old girl was shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
Lindsay Murdoch is a three-time winner of the Walkley Award, Australia's top award for journalistic excellence. Lindsay is a former correspondent based in Singapore, Jakarta and Darwin. In 1999 he covered the tumultuous events in East Timor, and in 2003 he covered the Iraq war while embedded with US Marines.
Althea Barbon's death came only days after a five-year-old girl was shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
The wife of a missing social activist from Laos has appealed to Malcolm Turnbull, Barack Obama and other leaders ahead of their visit to the country.
The deadly bomb that ripped through the home town of president Rodrigo Duterte late on Friday, is the first violent challenge to his "shock and awe" style rule
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has declared "a state of lawlessness" after a bomb ripped through a popular night market in his home southern city of Davao, killing 14 people and wounding 67 others.
President's aggressive statements encouraging extra-judicial killing could be used as evidence to prosecute him, human rights advocates said.
The Philippine military has been ordered to go "full force" to wipe out the Abu Sayyaf as thousands of additional troops move into its strongholds.
Singapore health authorities have warned the Zika virus, which has been linked to a rare birth defect, is spreading in the affluent city-state.
A five-year-old kindergarten girl is the latest victim of Philippines President Duterte's war on drugs.
Thirty minutes after the first bomb was detonated, a second exploded, killing one Thai and injuring 30 others.
More than 1,700 Filipinos have been killed in seven weeks since Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte pledged to wipe-out his country's illegal drugs trade.
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