MANILA, 16 January 2009 (PlusNews) - When Wanggo Gallaga, 29, a Philippino writer from the capital, Manila and the son of a critically acclaimed film director, publicly announced he was HIV positive, ...
MANILA, Philippines - Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said Friday that the National Food Authority (NFA) will bring in 200,000 metric tons of corn to remedy the tight supply after growers shifted to ...
MANILA, Philippines - Street crime rates fell while police efficiency ratings rose in 2008, the Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Director General Jesus Verzosa, said on Friday. Improved poli...
Rescuers in the Philippines have recovered six more bodies from widespread floods and landslides caused by heavy rains, raising the nationwide death toll to 15, rescuers say. A landslide buried a num...
Philippine troops have fanned out on a southern island to search for gunmen who abducted three members of the International Committee on the Red Cross (ICRC), including an Italian and a Swiss natio...
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops have fanned out on a southern island to search for gunmen who abducted three members of the International Committee on the Red Cross (ICRC), including an Italian a...
MANILA (Reuters) - About 80 communist New People's Army (NPA) rebels attacked a major government-funded road project in the southern Philippines, destroying more than 20 million pesos ($425,000) worth...
MANILA, Philippines -- Chief Justice Reynato Puno said he would be content to be the catalyst for the creation of a "moral force" movement to help solve the country's problems rather than seek the pre...
Fears are mounting that the kidnappers may hand them over to Muslim militants notorious for demanding ransom. One day after gunmen dragged a Swiss, an Italian and a Filipino from their vehicle and to...
"Civil status-wise, I’m single. In reality, I’m already taken," Sen. Mar Roxas disclosed to the media recently at the Roxas mansion in Cubao, Quezon City where he had invited the entertainment med...