Philippine forces killed a suspected militant in new fighting on Saturday in a central resort province where troops foiled possible kidnapping and bombing plots by extremists earlier this month, officials said.
Army troops and police killed Joselito (...)
When Clarissa's younger sister died, she had little time to dwell on her own grief. There were the three young children left behind to think of, two of them HIV positive.
Together with her own children, there are now seven youngsters crammed in her (...)
Divers plucked two more bodies from a sunken passenger ferry on Sunday and scrambled to plug an oil leak in the wreckage after a collision with a cargo ship. The accident near the central Philippine port of Cebu that has left 34 dead and more than (...)
A tourist bus packed with Iranian nationals plunged into a ravine Sunday while negotiating a mountain road in the central Philippines, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 30 others, officials said.
The bus, carrying dozens of mostly (...)
Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, frontrunner in the presidential race, said he may consider raising taxes if elected if the budget gap was not cut quickly by moves to crack down on tax evasion.
Aquino, son of democracy icon Corazon “Cory” Aquino (...)
Nacionalista Party (NP) presidential bet Senator Manuel Villar Jr. sees no problem with allowing the late Ferdinand E. Marcos to get buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes' Grave) in Taguig City, saying the former strongman has a place in (...)
Asian and Pacific leaders signed an agreement Monday to help reduce their dependence on conventional sources of energy and promote the use of biofuels, while urging North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
The Cebu Declaration on East Asian (...)
Leaders of China, Japan and South Korea expressed concern over North Korea's nuclear test, and called for «effective steps» to break a standoff in talks to de-nuclearize the Korean peninsula, a joint statement said Sunday.
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Southeast Asian leaders agreed at their annual summit Saturday to create a tighter political bloc, turn their region into a free-trade zone by 2015 and fight harder against terrorism and poverty.
In a major break with its consensus-based past, (...)
