Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines and no stranger to startling proposals, already has a preferred new name: The Republic of Maharlika.
Rice paddies across Asia are being replaced by golf courses and luxury hotels and workers are leaving the fields for factory jobs, as Rebecca Henschke reports on an endangered species – the rice farmers of Indonesia.
The BBC’s Jonathan Head reports from Manila on the steeply rising price of rice around the world.
