Manila: Weeklong rains have triggered flash floods, landslides and sea surge across the Philippines, leaving at least nine people dead and another nine missing. The national disaster agency reported o…

AP , MANILA Wednesday, Jan 14, 2009, Page 6 Somali pirates have freed a Japanese-operated bulk carrier with 21 Filipino crewmen they seized in October, a Philippine official said yesterday, the th…

A team of scientists in the Philippines has launched an ambitious project to alter the way rice grows and greatly increase yields of the crop, a daily staple for almost half the world’s people. With p…

guilty verdict handed down by the Makati City regional trial court against her former husband and ex-Batangas governor Antonio Leviste this Wednesday. Leviste was sentenced from 6 to 12 years in priso…

Close this MANILA, Philippines — The bad weather affecting northern parts of Mindanao led to the cancellation of more flights Wednesday morning from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, …

Close this MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE 4) Former Batangas governor Antonio Leviste is guilty of homicide in the death of his long-time aide Rafael de las Alas in 2007, a local court has ruled. In h…

TOKYO, Jan. 14 (AP) – (Kyodo)—The parents of a 13-year-old Filipino girl turned up at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau on Wednesday asking the authorities to allow the family to continue liv…

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo took over the helm of the country’s fight against illegal drugs by declaring herself on Tuesday as the “anti-drugs czar.” “I will temporaril…

They like to call themselves “truly lay, fully Filipino and missionary to all” – the 36 laypeople who on January 12 took part in the general assembly of the Philippine Catholic Lay Mission (PCLM). Dur…

MANILA, Philippines – If she is serious in getting the job done as new drug czar, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo should prioritize the coordination of government agencies involved in the fight agai…