While Vietnam has been taking economic centre-stage in an otherwise moribund economic landscape in Southeast Asia, a neighbour – long dubbed the “sick man of Asia” – has quietly crept back into the limelight. The Philippines is now the talk-of-the-town with a roaring economy, superb demographics and a new President who is unabashed in his resolve to throw all the thugs in jail in a bid to improve law and order and root out corruption.