Manila (dpa) – Two suspected robbers threw a grenade and opened fire inside a shopping mall in the Philippine capital on Thursday, wounding six people, police said.
The suspects attacked a bank employee delivering money to a foreign exchange (...)
Manila (dpa) – Philippine police on Wednesday launched a manhunt for a mayor and a former governor accused of masterminding the killing of a radio broadcaster and environmentalist.
A court in Puerto Princesa City in Palawan province, 600 (...)
Manila (dpa) – Kidnappers freed two public-school teachers abducted in the southern Philippines last week, an army spokesman said Monday.
No ransom was paid for the release Sunday night of Rene Sumagang and Serfino Sanchez, who were kidnapped (...)
Manila (dpa) – Two teachers and a midwife were kidnapped by suspected Muslim militants in the southern Philippines, the military and police said Tuesday.
The two teachers, both male, were seized on Monday on their way to school in Iligan City, (...)
MANILA: Philippine authorities on Wednesday urged Filipinos not to travel to Syria and reiterated a call for those already there to return, after the death of one migrant worker.
Meran Prieia Montezor, 23, was killed by armed gangs on February 24 (...)
Manila (dpa) – A Philippine anti-graft court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her husband for allegedly receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from a Chinese firm for an aborted government (...)
Manila (dpa) – A 41-year-old journalist was critically wounded after being shot by unidentified gunmen in the Philippines, police said Monday.
Fernan Angeles, a reporter for the Daily Tribune newspaper, suffered six gunshot wounds Sunday evening (...)
Manila (dpa) – Suspected communist rebels on Wednesday shot dead a Swiss-Filipino businessman in the southern Philippines for allegedly refusing to pay protection money and for supporting the military's campaign against the guerrillas, the military (...)
Manila (dpa) – The Philippines will close 10 embassies and consulates around the world to save money to be channeled to missions in the Middle East where more Filipinos need help, the government said Monday.
Raul Hernandez, spokesman for (...)
Manila (dpa) – Three children were killed Monday in a fire that razed their house as their parents worked at their farm in a central Philippine province, police said.
The children, aged 4 years, 2 years and 10 months, were sleeping at their house (...)
Manila (dpa) – The Philippines on Monday requested an apology from Friday Night Lights actor Taylor Kitsch for saying he was hassled by immigration at a Philippine airport, when he never visited the country.
“We believe that Taylor Kitsch made an (...)
Manila (dpa) – A private tour plane crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday, killing a Norwegian woman and the Filipino pilot, police said.
The woman's husband, 3-year-old son and the co-pilot were injured in the crash on Camiguin Island, (...)
Manila (dpa) – The Philippines' largest Muslim separatist rebel group said Thursday it had suspended three commanders involved in a clash in October that killed 19 government troops and five guerrillas.
Mohagher Iqbal, chief peace negotiator of (...)
Manila (dpa) – Philippine security forces have recovered a homemade bomb in an airport that serves as the gateway to the country's most popular tourist destination, police said Wednesday.
The device was found inside a plastic pouch in the cargo (...)
Manila (dpa) – Hundreds of thousands of members of a Philippine religious group gathered around the country Tuesday for prayer rallies that some observers noted were a show of political force.
An estimated 200,000 members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (...)
Manila (dpa) – Five male students and a female former student of a Philippine state university on Monday had their heads shaved in protest against alleged corruption in the school's student council.
The protest was held inside the campus of the (...)
Manila (dpa) – Nicolette San Jose could not remember the last Filipino movie she saw as she lined up for tickets to the latest George Clooney film at a Manila mall.
The 18-year-old college student giggled with her friends as they tried to help (...)
Manila (dpa) – Three people were killed and 12 injured when suspected Muslim rebels attacked a jail in the southern Philippines, allegedly in a bid to rescue a detained comrade, the military said Monday.
About 50 suspects descended on the jail in (...)
Manila (dpa) – The death toll in a magnitude-6.9 earthquake in the central Philippines rose to 41, with 67 people still missing and feared dead, the Office of Civil Defense said Sunday.
The toll rose after rescue teams recovered two bodies from (...)
Manila (dpa) – Philippine rescuers on Thursday battled against time, rain and equipment shortages in their search for at least 71 people missing in landslides for three days.
Thirty people have been confirmed killed by Monday's landslides, (...)
Manila (dpa) – The number of cancer cases worldwide are increasing at an alarming rate and governments must strengthen national programs to raise awareness and reduce risks and suffering from the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said (...)
Manila (dpa) – Fifteen alleged members of militant groups linked to al-Qaeda were killed Thursday in a pre-dawn airstrike on their hideout in the southern Philippines, including three suspected leaders, the military said.
The military bombed a (...)
Manila (dpa) – A fire gutted a Manila motel before dawn Wednesday, killing two people, arson investigators said.
The fire started on the second floor of the six-storey Red Apple Motel in the central district of Quiapo, investigators said.
One (...)
Manila (dpa) – Two European birdwatchers were abducted Wednesday in the southern Philippines by unidentified gunmen, police said.
A Filipino birdwatcher was also taken from a village in Panglima Sugala town in Tawi-Tawi province, said Chief (...)
Manila (dpa) – Investments in sustainable and green initiatives are needed to ensure the health and productivity of the world's oceans, which are strained by overexploitation, pollution and climate change, according to a UN report released on (...)