MANILA, Philippines — Women’s rights groups assailed President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines on Friday, after he made a crass joke suggesting that rape was inevitable as long as there were ...

A FILIPINO presidential candidate has come under fire for joking about the rape of a murdered Australian missionary — and he’s refusing to apologise. Rodrigo Duterte, who has been mayor of the ...

Filipino politician Christian Sia is one of the candidates under fire for sexist jokes ahead of the Philippines’ May 12 elections. (Credit: Christian “Ian” Sia/Facebook.) Listen MANILA, Philippines – ...

MANILA — Leading Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte, whose campaign promises a ruthless war on crime, was angrily condemned on Sunday after a video surfaced of him joking about a ...