. . MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday called for the withdrawal of U.S. military from a restive southern island, fearing an American...
DAVAO – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared a nationwide “state of lawlessness” Saturday after suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists detonated a bomb that killed 14 people...
. . MANILA – Communist rebels in the Philippines have fought one of Asia’s longest-running insurgencies. Although less numerous and less violent than Muslim separatist rebels...
. . MANILA – Japan and the Philippines joined forces on Thursday to call on China to observe the rule of law in resolving maritime disputes...
. . MANILA – The Philippines is the only Asia-Pacific country where the rate of teen pregnancies rose over the last two decades and the slow...
. . MANILA – The new Philippine president has blamed U.S. intervention for the bloody conflicts in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries in his...
. MANILA – The bodies of dozens of suspected drug peddlers have turned up in the Philippines in recent weeks, providing an eerie backdrop to the...
. . MANILA -Â The Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia agreed Monday to coordinated actions, including sea and air patrols, to stop an alarming wave of cross-border...
. . MANILA – Rodrigo Duterte, the bombastic mayor of a major southern city, was heralded Tuesday as president-elect of the Philippines after an incendiary and...
. . JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines agreed on Thursday to conduct coordinated sea patrols and establish a hotline to combat piracy and...
. . OTTAWA – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned on Monday the execution of a Canadian hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, calling...
. . MANILA -Â The Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Monday urged China to respect a forthcoming ruling by an arbitration court in The Hague...
. . MANILA – The Philippines supreme court upheld a military accord with the United States cleared the way for U.S. troops to deploy to the...
. . MANILA – Muslim guerrillas killed 10 civilians in the majority Catholic Philippines over Christmas, the military said Sunday, with some Christians in the affected...
. . LAS VEGAS – Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbachhas been crowned Miss Universe 2015 after an epic blunder by the pageant host in front of a...
. . MANILA – Typhoon Melor has ripped through the central Philippines, bringing heavy rain and strong winds that left at least four people dead and...
. . MANILA – Philippine officials have reported that more than 700,000 people fled the central Philippines amid threats of giant waves, floods and landslides as...
. . BEIJING – China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the Philippines’ case against China at an arbitration tribunal over rival claims in the South China...
. . CEBU – The Chinese consular officer and her husband, who allegedly killed two other Chinese diplomats and wounded their consul-general in a Philippines restaurant,...
. . MANILA – Philippine Immigration has ordered the deportation a U.S. Marine once his trial and possible sentence for the murder of a transgender Filipino...