Rodrigo Duterte said he sometimes playfully spanks the rear of his female security staff in Malacañang, the Philippines' presidential palace. Speaking at the alumni homecoming of San Beda College of Law on 26 November, he said: "I spank them on their bottoms in Malacañang if I'm ill-tempered. I get my...
Rodrigo Duterte has been sworn in as president of the Philippines, after a landslide election victory in May. The controversial former mayor of Davao City, 71, overthrew the political establishment, promising a "bloody war" on crime and action on corruption. In his inaugural speech he promised to make sweeping changes...