
JAKARTA After a bilateral meeting on Nov. 11, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak serenaded each other at a state dinner in Kuala Lumpur with grandfatherly karaoke versions of "Wind Beneath My Wings" and "Sha-La-La-La-La."
Two of Asia's most controversial leaders had just wrapped up talks on addressing maritime kidnapping, a scourge in the waters between eastern Malaysia and the southern Philippines, and it was time to get the weekend off to a good start.