• Human trafficking issue plagues Southeast Asia

KUALA LUMPUR: On a par with the “super drug traffickers” threat, human trafficking is giving Southeast Asian countries a big headache with the recent death of 39 Vietnamese nationals while trying to enter Britain being the latest case in point.

• Palace predicts ICC junking of motion to probe PHL’s war on drugs

Malacañang said Sunday that the International Criminal Court will also decide to dismiss, for lack of jurisdiction, a motion urging the court to determine whether it is in the position to investigate complaints arising from the Philippines war on drugs.

• Booming regional meth industry – Thailand, Myanmar, China and Laos

“At the same time significant investment has been made in new highways and bridges in an out of Myanmar, Thailand, China, Laos, Bangladesh and Vietnam. This has provided a boom in movement of products like food and clothing. And drugs.”

• CA revives criminal raps vs Italian ambassador

THE Court of Appeals (CA) on Thursday has ordered the revival of criminal charges against an Italian ambassador who was indicted for allegedly molesting three minors while on vacation in the Philippines in April 2014.

• ASEAN’s human trafficking plague

The discovery of 28 abandoned human-trafficking camps and multiple unmarked mass graves in the dense jungle of Wang Kelian near the Thai-Malaysia border in May 2015 sent a shock wave through ASEAN and the rest of the world

• Europe’s most wanted online sex offender gets 20 years in Cebu

MANILA, Philippines – A Cebu City court has sentenced Europe’s most wanted online sex offender to 20 years in prison.