MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines’ brash anti-establishment president Rodrigo Duterte told his government Thursday not to call him “Your Excellency”. Duterte, 71, said he wanted to be referred to simply as “President” in all official communications in a statement from his office. The first president from the vast southern region of Mindanao, Duterte has reinforced his image as a maverick outsider focused on a brutal anti-crime war instead of the opulence of the presidential […]





