Asia in 3 minutes: Kim Jong-un a fool: Duterte; sex-slave charity unacceptable: Hun Sen
Elephants and tigers kill a person a day in India; Japanese tortoise makes a great escape (again)
‘This Kim Jong-un, a fool’: Duterte on N Korea’s nuclear ambitions
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has rebuked North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over his nuclear programmes after a recent missile test showed Pyongyang may be able to strike anywhere in the US. “This Kim Jong-un, a fool ... he is playing with dangerous toys, that fool,” Duterte told officials in a speech. “That chubby face that looks kind. That son of a b****. If he commits a mistake, the Far East will become an arid land. It must be stopped, this nuclear war.”
What next? This year, Duterte is chairman of the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) and this week hosts the Asean Regional Forum, which brings together 27 countries. Pyongyang’s nuclear programme is likely to be high on the agenda.
On average, tigers and elephants kill one person a day in India
Endangered elephants and tigers are killing one person a day in India as humans encroach on their habitat, according to new government figures. But man is in turn killing a leopard a day. According to the environment ministry, 1,144 people were killed in attacks across India in 1,143 days between April 2014 and May this year. The ministry said 345 tigers and 84 elephants were killed in the same period, mostly by poachers. Siddhanta Das, the ministry’s director general of forests, said human inhabitation of animal territory was causing the deaths. “We are running awareness campaigns to minimise the casualties,” Das said.
What next? Elephants accounted for 1,052 human deaths and tigers 92, according to the figures released to parliament last week. West Bengal state accounted for more than a quarter of deaths. Last year, a herd of wild elephants went on an hours-long rampage in West Bengal, killing five people and damaging vehicles and homes before being subdued with tranquilliser darts. Most attacks on humans by elephants take place in so-called elephant corridors which they have used for centuries but are now being overrun by humans.
Bangladesh graft hotline inundated with 75,000 calls in first week
