Philippines News

Twenty-one people who were among a group of local politicians and journalists abducted Monday in Maguindanao, southern Philippines have been found dead, Philippinemilitary officials said.

A week after boxer Manny Pacquiao's stunning victory over Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas, another Philippine hero Efren Peñaflorida received a top award becoming CNN's Hero of the Year for 2009. And as Pacquiao thanked the Filipino people for his string of boxing victories, Efren will have you to thank for his stunning victory.

MANILA, Philippines – A Filipino has received international recognition for his innovative effort in educating poor children. Efren Peñaflorida, who started the “Kariton Klassroom” to bring education to poor children, has been named CNN Hero of the Year, the cable news network announced yesterday.

The U.N. is celebrating the success of its treaty guaranteeing children's rights, while focusing on more than a billion youngsters that need more help.

Suspected pirates have abducted the skipper and two crewmen of a tugboat and barge that took shelter in the southern Philippines in bad weather, officials said Sunday.

Today, we rented a van that could fit the whole clan and set forth to see the sights of Cebu.

Manny Pacquiao is a box office hit, selling 1.25 million pay-per-views for his fight with Miguel Cotto in a performance that could set up the richest fight ever against Floyd Mayweather Jr.

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines : Philippine troops have killed one of the top commanders of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group, the military said Friday.

Members of the Camp Navarro General Hospital and the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines chaplain team concluded three days of teaching crisis intervention management techniques to more than 50 care providers at the Philippine armed forces Western Mindanao Command yesterday.

AT a time when the country was consumed by economic doom and gloom the release, last week, of Columban priest, Fr.

China's top political adviser Jia Qinglin met Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo here on Friday, pledging further efforts to bolster bilateral ties.

Philippine troops have killed a senior commander of al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants wanted for kidnappings and bombings, the military says.

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo endorsed her former defence chief as her successor on Thursday although major defections hit the Philippines' largest political party ahead of presidential elections next May.

Widespread physical and sexual abuse of domestic workers from overseas is rampant throughout the Arab world.

(ANSAmed) - DUBAI, NOVEMBER 18 - The parliamentary commission for Labour Affairs of the Philippines has urged the government to suspend the sending of domestic workers to the Middle East followed an inspection by three delegates to the region, who documented situations tantamount to "modern slavery", reports the daily paper Khaleej Times.

The mission, sent by the parliament of the Philippines, visited five cities: Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Amman in Jordan. "We have seen violations in all three countries," said member of parliament Carlos Padillas, explaining that "some of the victims were tricked by the employment agencies, while others suffered physical and sexual abuse from their employers."

Master Sgt. Rose Gould assigned to passes out handouts during a psychological combat stress class at Camp Navarro General Hospital at Western Mindanao Command Nov.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - " Philippine Muslim rebels have denounced Thursday the violent dispersal by armed policemen of dozens of Muslim dwellers in Pasay City that killed 3 people and injured many others.

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Government troops mounted fresh operation against communist rebels who raided a logging firm and left at least three dozen people dead and wounded in Surigao del Sur province in Mindanao, officials said Friday.

TFI Global Limited announced today the opening of its Money Remittance Network for live money sending transactions.

A 79-year old Irish priest, who was released unharmed one month after being kidnapped in the Philippines by a militant Islamic group, says he wants to continue serving as a missionary - writes Ray McMenamin .

Two Korean men in their 40s were found stabbed to death on a beach in Cebu according to local police in the Philippines.