A Philippine eagle was named "Sakura" in honour of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was very thankful for the gesture.
An animated Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe thanked President Rodrigo Duterte after a rescued Philippine eagle was named (...)
Women in burqas and those wearing surgical masks should refrain from concealing their faces in public, the Philippine president's mayor daughter said Thursday, describing the measure as aimed at preventing attacks.
Sara Duterte, mayor of Davao and (...)
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday "plenty will be killed" before the end of his campaign against illegal drugs that has led to the death of about 2,400 people since he became president two months ago.
Duterte will meet Barack Obama (...)
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared a nationwide "state of lawlessness" Saturday after suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists detonated a bomb that killed 14 people and wounded about 70 in his southern hometown.
Duterte, who inspected the scene (...)
The Philippines' tough-talking president-elect has vowed to wipe out crime — and now he plans to tame the grinding traffic gridlock of Manila through the imposition of emergency powers.
Nicknamed "the Punisher" for his crime-busting crusade as mayor (...)
The Philippines and communist guerrillas are planning to each declare cease-fires before formal peace talks resume next month in Norway, the first in 30 years, government and rebels negotiators said on Tuesday.
The Philippines has been talking on (...)
Incoming Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday he would seek an early start to peace talks with communist rebels and free detained guerrilla chieftains when he takes office in end-June.
He also offered safe passage for Jose Maria Sison, (...)
The Philippines' president-elect, rough-talking city mayor Rodrigo Duterte, announced plans on Tuesday for an overhaul of the country's system of government that would devolve power from "imperial Manila" to long-neglected provinces.
Duterte's win (...)
As the European Union further tightens its standards for tuna products, the federation of fisheries in General Santos is looking at new market opportunities with the implementation of the ASEAN-Australia and New Zealand Free Trade Area (...)
Religious leader Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, who is celebrating his 60th birthday Sunday, said he would announce his endorsements a week before the May 10 automated elections.
Facing his guests here – presidential, vice presidential and senatorial (...)
Administration presidential bet Gilberto Teodoro Jr. Saturday night said he supports Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte even if the mayor is backing his rival and second cousin Senator Benigno Aquino III of the Liberal Party in the May (...)
Kampi-CMD standard bearer Gilbert Teodoro arrived here Friday morning just as House Speaker Prospero Nograles left for Cebu in a commercial flight.
Both have the reasons to avoid each other. Thursdayi, Nograles said Teodoro's defeat has now become (...)
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte formalized late last Friday his support for Senator Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III's presidential bid.
Duterte, who accompanied Aquino and his Liberal Party bets in their sortie in the city, said he does not see (...)
Incumbent Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has declined to confirm talks that he was supporting Liberal Party standard bearer Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III.
“That remains to be announced,” Duterte told GMANews.TV when asked whose presidential (...)
A 24-year-old man is now being held as the suspect in the killings of three children of an overseas Filipino worker in Davao last Wednesday.
Police arrested Dandan Ampo, a cousin of the three children, after witnesses tagged him in the grisly (...)
At least three towns in North Cotabato - Magpet, President Roxa and Kabacan - were declared under a state of calamity following series of flashfloods that left six people dead and millions worth of crops and infrastructures damaged.
Damage to crops (...)
Four government troops were killed and three wounded in a clash with communist rebels in a southern Philippine province, police said Sunday.
The clash occurred Saturday afternoon in the town of Monkayo in Compostela Valley province, 945 kilometers (...)
A diarrhoea outbreak in a southern Philippine town has killed six children and downed 60 people, DPA quoted local officials as saying today.
The children, aged 4 to 6, died since Monday in Don Marcelino town in Davao Del Sur province, 960 (...)
Philippine troops have recovered a homemade bomb that authorities believe was intended for use in an attack on a southern city, dpa quoted an air force spokesman as saying Wednesday.
The homemade pipe bomb was recovered during a raid on a suspected (...)
Four communist rebels were killed in a clash with government troops in the southern Philippines, the military said Thursday.
Three soldiers were also wounded in the fighting late Tuesday in Caraga town in Davao Oriental province, 1,020 kilometers (...)
One person was killed and three others injured when a grenade exploded during a party in the southern Philippines, police said Sunday.
The victims were guests at the farewell party on Saturday for a seaman in the town of Mabunturan in Compostela (...)
A 48-year-old German national was shot dead in the southern Philippines by unidentified gunmen, police said Sunday.
Reiner Franke, a native of Hamburg, was coming out of a bar in Digos City, 990 kilometers south of Manila, when two men shot him (...)