Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed two landmark laws on Friday reinforcing his country's maritime claims, including in the contested South China Sea, a move that has sparked anger from China, which claims nearly the entire (...)
Jennylyn M Barrios' job as a make-up artist takes her all over Manila – precious time away from Uno, her 10-month-old son.
There simply isn't enough time in the day to make the homemade meals her growing baby needs. But in rapidly developing (...)
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that he kept a "death squad" to crack down on crime while mayor of one of the country's largest cities.
In his first testimony before an official investigation on his so-called war on drugs, (...)
Typhoon Trami, locally known as Tropical Storm Kristine, has displaced and affected over 5.7 million people in the Philippines, with the death toll rising to 85, local media reported on Sunday.
According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and (...)
The death toll from Typhoon Trami, also known locally as Tropical Storm Kristine, has tragically climbed to 81, with thousands affected across the Philippines, local media reported.
According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (...)
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte registered on Monday to run for mayor in his home city despite his notorious legacy over his brutal anti-drugs crackdown that the International Criminal Court is investigating as a possible crime against (...)
An influential Filipino pastor wanted in the Philippines and the US for child sex trafficking has been arrested, ending a two-week-long standoff between police officers and his followers.
Police have been attempting to arrest Apollo Quiboloy in a (...)
Tropical Storm Enteng and severe monsoon rains have killed 10 people and displaced thousands across the Philippines, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported on Tuesday.
The storm has impacted 147,024 individuals (...)
Tropical Storm Enteng, internationally known as Yagi, has claimed two lives in the Philippines and caused significant disruptions, including flight cancellations, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council on (...)
The Philippines has reported two new cases of mpox, bringing the total number of active cases in the country to three this year, the Health Ministry announced on Monday.
The new cases involve two men in their mid-30s, one of whom is from the (...)
The US reaffirmed its support for the Philippines in defending its sovereign rights, the Pentagon announced Monday.
This declaration came during a meeting between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Philippine (...)
The Philippine Coast Guard has deployed floating barriers and started to clean up an oil spill to prevent it from reaching the capital, Manila.
Authorities are racing to stop the oil spill from the 65-meter-long (213 feet) MT Terra Nova, which (...)
A powerful typhoon made landfall in northeastern Taiwan early on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring hundreds of others as authorities closed financial markets, schools and offices.
Conditions in Taiwan worsened as Typhoon Gaemi (...)
Much of the Philippine capital remained underwater Thursday after deadly Typhoon Gaemi worsened torrential monsoon rains that lashed the country, trapping thousands of people in rising flood waters and causing widespread damage.
Continuous heavy (...)
Typhoon Gaemi has made landfall in mainland China after wreaking havoc in Taiwan and the Philippines.
More than 150,000 people living in the south-eastern Chinese province of Fujian have been relocated to safer areas in anticipation of the storm.
It (...)
The Philippines has announced plans to ban offshore gaming operators, targeting an industry that mostly caters to Chinese gamblers and has sparked growing alarm from law enforcement over its alleged connections to organized crime.
Known locally as (...)
China and the Philippines have reached a deal aimed at ending confrontations at the fiercely disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, the Philippine government announced Sunday.
The shoal, claimed by both nations, has been a hotspot for (...)
A small town mayor in the Philippines who has been accused of being a Chinese spy has gone into hiding, officials said.
Police could not carry out a warrant for the arrest of Alice Guo over the weekend as she was not at any of her known (...)
A Philippine court has dropped drugs charges against one of the most vocal critics of former President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody "war on drugs," ending a long legal battle that had seen the former senator held for more than six years in police (...)
The United States on Monday condemned China over a collision with the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea, the latest in a series of increasingly fraught confrontations that have raised the potential of a flashpoint for global conflict in (...)
Hundreds of residents living near Mount Kanlaon in the Philippines were ordered to evacuate Tuesday after the volcano erupted, sending a three-mile tall (five-kilometer) ash column into the sky that caused dozens of flights to be canceled.
The (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to the Philippines on Monday to urge regional leaders to attend an upcoming Swiss-organised global peace summit on the war in Ukraine.
Arriving unannounced and under heavy security in Manila late (...)
China has accused the United States of "stoking military confrontation" with the recent deployment of a powerful missile launcher capable of firing weapons with a range of up to 1,600 kilometers to exercises in the Philippines.
The presence of the (...)
President Joe Biden has vowed that the US will defend the Philippines from any attack in the South China Sea, calling its support for Manila "ironclad".
Biden's comments come amid regular skirmishes and rising tensions between Chinese and Philippine (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said all of Gaza's two million people are experiencing "severe levels of acute food insecurity".
This was first time an entire population had been so classified, he said when questioned by the BBC about (...)
