Awwal 25, 1432 / April 29, 2011, SPA -- Nine people were killed and 53 injured Friday when a truck they were riding in plunged into a ravine in the southern Philippines, police said.
The victims were on their way to work at a palm plantation in (...)
Awwal 19, 1432, April 23, 2011, SPA -- Philippine troops and volunteers on Saturday dug through thick mud in search for 21 people missing in a landslide at a gold mining village, officials said.
The number of survivors rose to 15 after rescuers (...)
Awwal 18, 1432 H / April 22, 2011, SPA -- At least 10 people were killed Friday when a landslide buried houses and tunnels in a mining village in the southern Philippines, police and the military said.
According to dpa, up to 40 people were feared (...)
Akhir 29, 1432, April 03, 2011, SPA -- Four miners were killed when a tunnel they were working-in, collapsed during heavy rains in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman said Sunday.
Two miners were rescued alive from the accident on Saturday (...)
Akhir 27, 1432 / April 1, 2011, SPA -- The Philippines, where an average of 11 women a day die giving birth, could lower its high maternal death rate by having a reproductive health policy, a visiting United Nations delegation said on Friday. "The (...)
Akhir 26, 1432, March 31, 2011, SPA-- Three miners were killed in a landslide that struck a mining site in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman said Thursday.
According to dpa, two miners were injured in the accident Wednesday in T'boli town (...)
Akhir 19, 1432 H/March 24, 2011, SPA -- Two soldiers were killed and two wounded in a roadside bombing allegedly perpetrated by communist rebels in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman said Thursday.
According to dpa, the victims were among (...)
Akhir 12, 1432 / March 17, 2011, SPA -- A family of seven was killed Thursday in a landslide triggered by two days of heavy rains in the eastern Philippines, a city mayor said.
According to dpa, the victims were asleep when their house was buried (...)
Akhir 05 , 1432 H. / March 10, 2011 -- The Philippines' internal revenue bureau has filed separate tax evasion complaints against two retired generals, their wives and a brother-in-law who have all been linked to a multimillion dollar military (...)
Thani 01,1432, March 06, 2011, SPA -- Philippine President Benigno Aquino III on Sunday appointed a new military chief.
Aquino named Lieutenant Eduardo Oban, a fighter pilot and planner
of some of the military's key programmes, as the new chief of (...)
Awwal 28, 1432 H/March 3, 2011, SPA -- Three communist rebels and one policeman were killed in a clash in the northern Philippines, a police report said Thursday.
According to dap, the fighting erupted late Wednesday when patrolling officers (...)
Awwal 18, 1432, Feb 21, 2011, SPA -- Hundreds of people fled homes and farms in central Philippines on Monday after a volcano spewed a 2-km (1.2-mile) high column of ash covering several villages, officials said.
Soldiers were patrolling a 4-km (...)
Awwal 16, 1432, Feb 19, 2011, SPA -- Philippine President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III pledged today that a comprehensive investigation would be undertaken on reports of existence of corruption in the army, which accused the officers of (...)
Awwal 12, 1432 H/Feb15, 2011, SPA -- Peace talks between the Philippine government
and the leftist National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF)
opened Tuesday in Norway - amid calls for the release of a rebel
leader arrested on the eve of (...)
Awwal 10, 1432, Feb 13, 2011, SPA -- Two soldiers and five rebels were killed in a clash in the southern Philippines, the military said Sunday.
Four soldiers were also wounded Saturday in Sumisip town in Basilan province, 900 kilometres south of (...)
Awwal 08, 1432, Feb 11, 2011, SPA -- Three Japanese men and a Philippine woman were
arrested in the Philippines for allegedly using fake US dollar bills
to buy gold chips, a police spokeswoman said Friday, according to dpa.
Police recovered 14 (...)
Awwal 07, 1432, Feb 10, 2011, SPA -- Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said
Thursday that he was planning to send an emissary to Taiwan in a bid
to fix a diplomatic row over the deportation of Taiwan suspects to
China, according to (...)
Awwal 01, 1432, Feb 04, 2011, SPA -- The death toll in floods and landslides caused by more than a month of heavy rains in the Philippines has reached 82, the Office of Civil Defence said Friday.
Accordign to dpa, the latest fatalities were 11 (...)
Hijjah 06, 1431, Nov 12, 2010, SPA -- A volcano in the eastern Philippines on Friday spewed a new plume of ash and steam, jolting residents around the rumbling mountain, as dpa reported.
The early-morning ash explosion at Mount Bulusan in Sorsogon (...)
Hijjah 02, 1431/Nov 08, 2010, SPA -- Philippine Minister of Higher Education Patricia Licuanan has met with Saudi Ambassador to the Philippines Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al-Hassan.
During the meeting, they reviewed cooperation between the two countries (...)
Qa'da 10, 1431, Oct 18, 2010, SPA -- Torrential rain battered the northern Philippine island of Luzon on Monday as the Typhoon Megi slammed into the country.
Megi, also known as Typhoon Juan, made landfall near Sierra Madre on Luzon, according to (...)