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Superbugs take residence in south-east Asia
Multidrug-resistant malaria superbugs have widely spread and are now established across parts of south-east Asia, undermining global efforts to control and eradicate the mosquito-borne disease.
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.
Multidrug-resistant malaria superbugs have widely spread and are now established across parts of south-east Asia, undermining global efforts to control and eradicate the mosquito-borne disease.
Police in the capital Manila are allegedly being given a bounty of up to $400 a head for each accused drugs suspect killed in Rodrigo Duterte's drugs crackdown.
The son of an Australian nurse charged with running a surrogacy agency in Cambodia has been detained and is set to be deported from the country.
Peter Scully's co-accused has allegedly admitted that she has been in touch with him ever since he was arrested in 2015.
The 65-year-old veteran of the country's pro-democracy struggle was shot twice in the head as he cradled his grandson at the airport on Sunday evening.
The Philippine President has ordered a "cleansing" of rogue police after the abduction and killing of a South Korean businessman.
An adviser to Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy was assassinated outside a busy airport on Sunday amid heightened communal tensions in the Buddhist majority country.
The former live-in partner and co-accused of alleged child sex predator and "dark web" mastermind Peter Scully has been arrested in a blow to the Australian man's chances of escaping conviction and possible execution in the Philippines.
Human rights groups see a breakdown in the rule of law under Rodrigo Duterte.
South-east Asian nations have expressed concern they will become caught-up in superpower rivalries after the new Trump administration ended the 12-nation Pacific trade deal.
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