Philippines News

Twelve people, including seven Filipino Marines and five Abu Sayyaf bandits, were killed in a clash on Saturday as the military launched an offensive against al-Qaeda-linked gunmen.

An ex-councilor and a civilian were wounded after a retired policeman shot them during a cockfighting dispute in Bulacao, Talisay City Saturday afternoon.

Guinness World Records adjudicator Seyda Subasi-Gemici announced that the 15,185 sky lanterns flown from the football field of University of the Philippines Visayas in Miag-ao town of Iloilo province has set a new world record.

Eleven people were killed in the southern Philippines on early Saturday as troops clashed with militant group Abu Sayyaf in the southern island of Jolo.

MANILA: Eleven people were killed in the southern Philippines early Saturday as troops clashed with a militant group blamed for the country's deadliest terror attacks, the military said.

MANILA, Philippines After a successful debut album and a sold-out birthday concert at the Araneta Coliseum, actor Daniel Padilla has released his second album.

In this Memorial Day issue, we honor a local WWII veteran who survived the brutality of the Japanese POW camps and the "Hell Ships." Although he passed away February 3, 2013, shortly before his 93rd birthday, his story of courage and endurance lives on.

Pechanga Resorts & Casino celebrates the Filipino Independence Day by hosting Anne Curtis' "Annebisyosa" No Other Concert .

THE Jasaan town police filed a double murder case on Friday against alleged suspects responsible for the killing of a driver and his aide of a Jasaan jeepney liner on Wednesday evening on Bonifacio Street in Jasaan, Misamis Oriental.

In a landmark decision upholding the "precautionary principle," the Court of Appeals has granted a petition filed by environmentalists to permanently put to a stop nationwide field trials of genetically modified eggplants -- popularly known as Bacillus thuringiensis talong.

MANILA, Philippines Twenty signature ice cream concoctions are offered at the first Cold Stone Creamery store in the country, which is located at the Serendra mall at Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.

SOME P11,000 worth of cash and valuables were carted away from a gasoline station by six unidentified suspects on Wednesday evening along Masterson Avenue in Upper Balulang in Cagayan de Oro.

The barangay captain of Mabini, this city, allegedly killed his rumored paramour before shooting himself to death inside his vehicle a few hours after he had thrown her body off a cliff.

Newly elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina's cape blows in wind as he leaves after praying at basilica in Rome To accommodate the pontiff's tight schedule, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines gave in to the request of the Vatican to move the congress date from the original schedule of May 23 to 9, 2016 ... (more)

The Department of Finance is proposing to scrap the income tax holiday incentive enjoyed by hotels and resorts in the country's hottest tourist destinations, a top DOF official said.

A Philippine government solider was killed and three others were wounded in an encounter with the leftist rebel group of New People's Army in the restive southern Philippines on Wednesday, local police said Thursday.

Almost five months after typhoon Pablo hit the province of Davao Oriental in eastern Mindanao, Philippines, disaster affected families in the municipalities of Baganga, Cateel and Boston still need help.

The National Bureau of Investigation's witness to the killing of Italian missionary Fausto "Pops" Tentorio, who was parish priest of Arakan, North Cotabato at the time of his death, did not witness the incident at all, but was forced to say so only out of fear.

After Kobe beef, cheesecake drizzled in peach sauce, and coffee served from silver pots are whisked away, the band, white-haired and dressed in black, tests their instruments on stage.

The FBI has arrested a suspect in a case involving the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin and says investigators are working "around the clock" to address any remaining risks.