President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said terrorism dominated the talks during the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit and Related Summits in Manila.

"Half of the time during the interventions [what was being discussed] actually was the issue of terrorism. Everybody’s scared with the new vogue of dying suddenly in the explosion of any… whatever," he said.

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