Boxing star Manny Pacquiao on Sunday announced he will run for president of the Philippines in the 2022 elections.
He officially accepted the nomination to be standard-bearer of the PDP-Laban camp which he co-leads with Senator Aquilino "Koko" (...)
The death toll rose to more than 500 as rescuers Sunday plucked bodies from the sea after floods devastated two southern Philippine cities and nearby areas, civil defence and Red Cross officials said.
Soldiers, coast guard teams, local rescuers and (...)
At least 180 people were killed and 375 were missing in floods and landslides triggered by a tropical storm in the southern Philippines, military and disaster relief officials said Saturday.
Tropical Storm Washi slammed into the southern region of (...)
The death toll from devastating floods and
landslides triggered by a tropical storm in the Philippines hit 436
Saturday, with 162 still missing, dpa quoted the Red Cross as saying.
The southern city of Cagayan de Oro City suffered the most (...)
Twelve people, several of them children, were killed Saturday when a light plane crashed in a residential area outside Manila's international airport, a city official said.
The six-seat Queen Air plane crashed behind an elementary school in (...)
Fourteen people, most of them children, were killed Saturday when a light plane crashed in a residential area outside Manila's international airport, dpa quoted a city official as saying.
The six-seat plane crashed behind an elementary school in (...)
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) returned to the negotiation table Monday, after rejecting a government peace proposal in August, DPA reported.
"Our proposed political settlement besides providing for a pragmatic framework workable within (...)
A 5.3-magnitude quake struck early Wednesday north of Manila in Pangasinan province, the Philippine Institute of
Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.
The earthquake at 8:26 am was felt in Metro Manila.
Phivolcs Director Renato Solidum said (...)
Two people were killed and 28 injured in a bombing of a small hotel in the southern Philippines, police said Monday.
The explosion occurred Sunday evening in the Atilano Pension House in Zamboanga City, 875 kilometres south of Manila, according to (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1432, Nov 20, 2011, SPA - Four people were killed Sunday and more than 1,500 left homeless in a pre-dawn fire in the Philippines, fire officials
said.
The fire gutted about 500 houses in the Manila suburb of Quezon, according to fire (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- Authorities charged former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo with electoral fraud Friday as part of a high-profile tug of war to keep her in the country and prevent any chance of her turning (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday vowed to provide greater defence support for the
Philippines.
Hillary Clinton and Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario signed a declaration calling (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed the military ties between the United States and the Philippines Wednesday during a trip to the island nation, according to UPI.
While in the Philippines, (...)
AlHijjah 12, 1432, Nov 8, 2011, SPA - A 5.2-magnitude earthquake injured 16 people and damaged dozens of houses and buildings in the southern Philippines,
the Office of Civil Defence (OCD) said Tuesday.
The quake struck late Monday with an (...)
AlHijjah 11, 1432, Nov 7, 2011, SPA - A land mine exploded and wounded at least six soldiers Monday in a southern Philippine province.
A platoon of army scout rangers came under fire from unidentified men and then were hit by a land mine blast near (...)
AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- The Philippine navy and coast guard are searching for 20 crew members of a cargo ship that may have sunk in rough waters west of the main island of Luzon, AP reported.
Coast guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Algier (...)
AlHijjah 7, 1432, Nov 3, 2011, SPA -- The Philippine government said that Somali pirates hijacked a chemical tanker with 21 Filipino crew members near the Gulf of Aden, AP reported.
Spokesman Raul Hernandez of the Department of Foreign Affairs said (...)
AlHijjah 6, 1432, Nov 2, 2011, SPA -- The Philippines has banned the deployment of Filipino workers to 41 countries that do not guarantee the protection
of migrant workers, dpa quoted labour officials as saying Wednesday.
Labour Secretary (...)
AlQa'dah 29, 1432, Oct 27, 2011, SPA -- World Bank chief Robert Zoellick is welcoming a deal clinched by European leaders to address the region's debt crisis, saying it may help avert the spread of the financial turmoil to emerging markets that (...)
AlQa'dah 19, 1432, Oct 17, 2011, SPA - About 3,000 U.S. and Filipino marines started two weeks of annual military drills in the Philippines on Monday.
U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Nick Eisenbeiser said the Oct. 17-28 maneuvers would focus on honing their (...)
AlQa'dah 12, 1432, Oct 10, 2011, SPA - Eight Communist rebels and one soldier were killed Monday in a clash in the northern Philippines, said the Army Chief, Lieutenant General Arturo Ortiz
The fighting erupted when patrolling troops encountered an (...)
AlQa'dah 11, 1432, Oct 9, 2011, SPA - The death toll from the two strong typhoons that cut across the north of the Philippines' main island and left behind widespread flooding has risen to 101, the national disaster agency said on Sunday.
Typhoon (...)
AlQa'dah 9, 1432, Oct 7, 2011, SPA -- Philippine shares on Friday rose 3.05 per cent buoyed by the European Central Bank's affirmation of support for European banks amid weakness in the global economy, dpa reported.
The Philippine Stock (...)
AlQa'dah 8, 1432, Oct 6, 2011, SPA -- The World Bank on Thursday downgraded the 2011 and
2012 growth forecasts for the Philippines amid weakness in the global
economy, dpa reported.
The bank said in a quarterly report that it expected (...)
AlQa'dah 3, 1432, Oct 1, 2011, SPA - A typhoon struck the northern Philippines Saturday dumping heavy rains and causing powerful winds in the same area hit by another storm five days earlier.
The weather bureau said Typhoon Nalgae, with maximum (...)
