Paolo Fossati

The clergyman runs Caritas in Giai Lai province. “I love the indigenous people. I like their simplicity,” he writes. “To help them, we must think in terms of integral development. For this reason, I believe that what we must promote first and foremost is education.”

The scaled down exercises will support "diplomatic efforts to achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula”. Key Resolve and Foal Eagle will be replaced by Dong Maeng. US President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly complained about the costs of US troop deployment in South Korea. Seoul has agreed to increase its contribution to US$ 924 million dollars.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that there are at least 10 million people in the world without nationalities. About 40% of the world's stateless persons live in Southeast Asia, of which 7,138 in the Philippines.

Fire ants are an invasive alien species, native to South America. In rare cases, its sting can cause death. In 2017, Japanese authorities discovered some in a port in Kyushu Prefecture.

Today South Koreans mark the centennial of a protest movement against the occupying forces. The massacre in Jeam-ri was one episode in Japan’s months-long harsh crackdown. “We'll keep apologising until you say 'Now that's enough’,” pilgrims say.

The political prisoner asks authorities to investigate beatings and torture dating back to 2017 and 2018. He is serving a seven-year sentence for "propaganda against the state". So far, the complaints about the treatment received have not been answered.

The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) challenges a UN investigation, done with the government. More than 6,000 acres are under poppy cultivation near military camps and government militias bases in Tanai. A “distorted picture of the link between conflict and opium is being conveyed”.

There should be “No exception, no special treatment". The prelate responds to the president, who is against deporting undocumented Chinese because it might lead to Filipinos deported from China. About 74 per cent of the 533 foreigners arrested in the Philippines in 2018 were Chinese.

The two leaders canceled lunch and a signature ceremony. The White House: "The respective delegations look forward to meeting in the future". Kim and Trump discussed denuclearization and guided economics. The North Korean leader declares that he would not have come to Hanoi if he had not consented to the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal.

North Korea’s leader says he will do his best to produce a "great outcome", praises the US president for his "courageous decision" to make the meeting possible in Vietnam. The two leaders will continue negotiations tomorrow. For Trump, tomorrow will be a busy day.

“No threat or intimidation can stop me from carrying on with my spiritual and pastoral duties,” says the bishop of Caloocan, a harsh critic of Duterte's controversial war on drugs, and the victim in recent months of the president’s unproven accusations.

He fit in the hands of an adult, but now weighs 3,238 pounds and feeds normally. The survival rate of premature baby boys is lower than that of girls. Infant mortality in Japan is among the lowest ever.