SINGAPORE: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte may have missed several meetings at the Asean summit because he was taking "power naps", but 93 year old Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he did not know how he had managed to attend most of them.
Dr Mahathir said this when he was asked by two reporters about Duterte’s admission that he had been napping and missing a number of the meetings, but Dr Mahathir still managed to attend.
“What do you have to say and how do you manage?” the journalist had questioned Mahathir.
To this the Prime Minister replied “I don’t know how I manage, but I always attend meetings. It’s my duty.
“If I can, I will. If I’m sick, I won’t.”
A spokesman for Duterte had admitted the President missed four scheduled events on Wednesday because he was "catching up on sleep".
Duterte and other world leaders are in Singapore attending the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) meeting.
The 73-year-old duterte however defended his actions, saying: "What's wrong with my nap?"
Duterte has previously missed events at other international summits as well as in the Philippines.