The United States is increasing its readiness in the Indo-Pacific region against North Korea, intensifying "intelligence, readiness and surveillance collection activities" related to North Korea following recent ballistic missile launches by Pyongyang, US Indo-Pacific Command announced Wednesday.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office said on Monday, in a bid to protect minors from rape and sexual abuse.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office said on Monday, in a bid to protect minors from rape and sexual abuse.

Morgues are nearly at capacity, hospitals overwhelmed and, as fears grow of a citywide lockdown, panicked shoppers have stripped supermarket shelves bare.

As a young man, Fred Chin spent years imprisoned on a craggy island off Taiwan.