The Department of Transportation has conducted the groundbreaking for the Metro Manila Subway System, the first in the country. Speaking in Valenzuela City today (Wednesday, February 27) Transportation Secretary Arthur …
The Philippines, the UK and Australia have launched the first international centre to battle the online exploitation of Filipino children. The combined law enforcement agencies opened the Philippine Internet Crimes …
The Bureau of Immigration will deport an American wanted for distributing child pornography after he was arrested in Angeles City. In a statement today (Wednesday, February 27), Immigration Commissioner Jaime …
President Duterte believes a Colombian drug cartel is at work in the Philippines after bricks of cocaine were found in the nation’s waters. Speaking in Pasay City today (Tuesday, February …
More cocaine bricks have been recovered from the seas of the Philippines, bringing the total number of such finds this month to ten. Police today (Monday, February 25) announced the …
Foreigners resident in the Philippines have until March 1 to go a Bureau of Immigration office and complete their 2019 annual report. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente has stressed that the …
A British man has been arrested after he was accused of trying to shoplift two flat-screen televisions from supermarket in Makati City. Chief Inspector Gideon Ines, Makati police’s assistant chief …
The Bureau of Customs is working to restore systems and facilities for the operations at the Port of Manila after it was gutted by fire. Customs Commissioner Rey Guerrero said …
An American sex offender wanted by his home country for distributing child pornography has been arrested in the Philippines. Department of Justice (DOJ) spokesman Markk Perete identified the fugitive American …
Kim Jong Un has passed through the border city of Dandong en route to his highly anticipated Hanoi summit with US President Donald Trump. Passing over the Friendship Bridge that …
The German foreign ministry has summoned the acting Philippine ambassador to Germany after Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin defended President Duterte’s comments on Hitler. In a tweet today (Friday, February …
Four Australians who planned to sail to the Philippines on a ‘tinny’ fishing boat and join the Abu Sayyaf terror group have been jailed. As we previously reported, the men …
The Bureau of Immigration has barred a 32-year-old Canadian who served time for manslaughter from entering the country. Port Operations Division chief Grifton Medina said Imad Hermiz, was intercepted on …
Next week President of the United States Donald Trump will meet with supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, to undertake the second summit between the …
An American rape suspect and Korean drug smuggler are set to be deported after they were arrested by the Bureau of Immigration in Metro Manila and Quezon province. BI Commissioner …
A driver’s license is the most important thing in a driver’s wallet. In the Philippines, before anyone can legally drive any vehicle, he or she must obtain a driver’s license …
A health chief has urged the public again to take preventive measures against dengue fever amid an increase of cases across the Philippines. In a television interview yesterday (Wednesday, February …
President Duterte has signed the Universal Health Care Act into law which will bring all Filipinos under the government’s health insurance programme. The president signed the landmark legislation during a …
Charges against an Iranian tourist who attacked a policeman have been dropped after her family revealed that she had a medical condition. Fereteh Najafi Marbouyeh, aged 31, was jailed after …
A trike driver in El Nido, Palawan, has been jailed for up to 20 years less than a week after he admitted raping an Irish tourist. In a rare example …
The Bureau of Immigration arrested 276 mainly Chinese people during a raid in Makati City amid a crackdown on illegal foreign workers. Commissioner Jaime Morente said today (Tuesday, February 19) …
An American priest, who was awaiting deportation for crimes committed in the USA, has been arrested for abusing more than 50 Filipino children. Father Kenneth Hendricks, accused of molesting numerous …
A measles outbreak in the Philippines — widely blamed on vaccination fears — has now claimed 136 lives, half of them children under four. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said …
Surprisingly few of the more than 3,000 species of mosquitoes around the world actually specialise in biting humans. Instead, most are opportunistic feeders – feeding when they are able and …
A 31-year-old Iranian tourist has been jailed after she allegedly launched a drunken attack on a policeman in Puerto Galera. Police spokesman Superintendent Socrates Faltado said the police officer also …
The military has condemned the Abu Sayyaf Group for launching a mortar attack on a military-led medical mission in Patikul, Sulu. Lieutenant General Arnel Dela Vega, Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) …