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Inside miserable Quezon jail where prisoners sleep in shifts
Surely there can be few places as miserable as the jail in metropolitan Manila's most populous city as president Rodrigo Duterte wages his deadly war on drugs across the Philippines.
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.
Surely there can be few places as miserable as the jail in metropolitan Manila's most populous city as president Rodrigo Duterte wages his deadly war on drugs across the Philippines.
Manila woman says police assassinated her husband in case of mistaken identity.
Lindsay Murdoch reports from the war that will not end until every drug suspect surrenders, is caught or killed.
In his latest outburst Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has told foreign investors they can leave his country.
Prosecutors have revealed how an Australian child sex predator directed a video involving horrific injuries to an 18-month-old baby.
A confessed death squad member has testified that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the killings of opponents while mayor of Davao.
The death toll in Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's bloody "war on drugs" has risen to 3426 and that's a fraction of the 3.7 million people he says use drugs.
The US has long been most important military ally of the Philippines - but the country's new president is sending some mixed signals.
A pall of anxiety is cast across this country of 64 million people over the declining health of their king.
An Australian DJ caught with 61 ecstasy pills in the Thai beach city of Pattaya has been sentenced to two life terms in jail.
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