MANILA: Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his two sons plan to run in the country's senate election in 2025, Vice President Sara Duterte said on Tuesday (June 25). "All of them are raring to run," Sara Duterte, the current Philippine vice president and daughter of the former president, told reporters less than a week after...
MANILA, Philippines (AP): The president of the Philippines said Sunday his country would not yield to "any foreign power” after Chinese forces injured Filipino navy personnel and damaged at least two military boats with machetes, axes and hammers in a clash in the disputed South China Sea, but added the Philippines would never instigate a...
MANILA: Four Filipino police officers, suspected members of a kidnapping syndicate, have been arrested for the abduction of four foreigners in Pasay City, Philippines News Agency (PNA) reported. Interior and Local Government Department Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr and Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Rommel Francisco Marbil presented the suspects - Major Christel Villanueva, Staff Sergeant...
MANILA: Philippine authorities ordered the evacuation of residents living near a volcano in central Philippines on Tuesday (June 4) following an eruption that sent a five km (three miles) high ash cloud into the sky. Government officials warned of the possibility of further eruptions of Kanlaon volcano, hazardous ash fall and sulphuric odour. They also warned...
The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking to remove the Binance app from Google Play store and Apple’s app stores nationwide. On April 9, the commission sent separate letters to Google and Apple requesting the removal of the applications that allow users to access Binance’s trading platform. The recent move came after the Philippine National Telecommunications...
MANILA (Vietnam News/ANN): The World Risk Index (WRI) 2023 put the Philippines at the number one for the most-disaster-prone country in the world, followed by Indonesia and India. According to the report, the Philippines topped the list with the highest disaster risk worldwide point of 46.86/100 WRI, while Indonesia and India spotted at 43.5 and 41.52...
MANILA (Reuters): The Philippines on Monday denied China had a "temporary special arrangement" with Manila to allow the delivery of supplies to Philippine troops occupying a disputed South China Sea reef, calling it "a figment of imagination". The Chinese coastguard said on Saturday it had temporarily allowed the Philippines to provide food and water to soldiers...
MANILA (AFP): CNN Philippines will stop operations from January 31 due to "significant financial losses", its owner announced Monday, in the latest blow for the media industry in the South-East Asian nation. The broadcaster began operating in the Philippines in 2015 as a franchise of CNN, delivering mainly English-language news on free-to-air, cable and pay television. Staff...
MANILA: One of the suspects in a fatal Mindanao State University (MSU) bombing has been arrested and is now under the custody of authorities, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Friday (Dec 8). AFP public affairs chief Col Xerxes Trinidad identified the suspect as Jafar Gamo Sultan, who was arrested by joint elements...
MANILA: More than 1,600 aftershocks have jolted a southern Philippine province following a magnitude-7.4 earthquake that left at least one dead and hundreds of houses and buildings damaged, officials said on Monday (Dec 4). The aftershocks included a magnitude-6.8 quake that struck at 3:49am on Monday (1949 GMT Sunday) in Cagwait town in Surigao del Sur...
