President Benigno Aquino III will attend the inauguration of the Therma South Energy Project in Toril, Davao City on Friday. The 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant is a project wholly owned …
The Army granted a West Point-educated officer a rare religious accommodation that will allow him to wear a beard and turban, requirements of his Sikh faith. Captain Simratpal Singh, aged …
A husband who returned home from drinking, has killed his wife after playing ‘Russian Roulette’ with a home-made .22 calibre pistol in the town of Binalonan, Pangasinan. A report on …
An IED land mine, planted by communist rebels, has killed two soldiers and a civilian – as well as wounding 15 others in the town of Mabini, Compostela Valley. The …
A Colombian was arrested at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Sunday night. Angel Andrers Rodriguez Quiame was arrested after Interpol flagged his name as being a drug courier who …
A girl band was detained at an airport after they were mistaken for being sex workers. K-Pop group Oh My Girl were travelling to the United States for an album …
Prolific character actor Harry Morgan, who appeared in more than 100 films but was best known for his role as Colonel Sherman Potter in the popular television series MASH, has …
A Polish man refuses to leave a Ninoy Aquino International Airport clinic where he has been staying since last Monday. 41-year old Tomasz Chalot Stanislaw arrived at the airport last Monday …
Melor, also known as Nona in the Philippines, will continue to strengthen into a super typhoon before it barrels into the Philippines. Melor is on a collision course with the …
An Australian is said to have been roaming the halls of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport for the past month, begging for money from passengers and employees to buy food …
At least 50,000 Malaysians support the so-called Islamic State (IS) the country’s transport minister said on Saturday, raising alarm about possible attacks in the Southeast Asian nation. The figure of 50,000 …
This week we reported on the burden Davao City and Mindanao residents are having with long-term and continual rotating blackouts – now Misamis Oriental is suffering the same fate. Those …
The National Bureau of Investigation has found credible evidence to file formal charges against members of the Philippine National Police-Avaiation Security Group (Avsegroup) for their involvement in the “tanim-bala” bullet …
The first vaccine against dengue fever won clearance in Mexico, an initial step toward preventing a mosquito-borne infection that puts half of the world’s population at risk. Sanofi expects more …
The Thailand Bureau of Immigration has announced plans to crackdown on foreigners overstaying their visa beginning in 2016. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha approved the Thai Bureau of Immigration’s proposal to …
Douglas Tompkins, the billionaire co-founder of outdoor label The North Face, who died Tuesday after a kayaking accident in Chile’s Patagonia region, used his fortune to conserve the South American …
The French embassy in the Philippines on Wednesday opened a new visa center in Makati to accommodate “the significant increase in volume” of Filipinos applying for Schengen visas. French Ambassador …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named Time Magazine’s 2015 Person of the Year – the first woman in 29 years to take the top spot. “Merkel had already emerged …
Two women wanted for ‘large-scale’ illegal recruitment were arrested in separate raids in La Union by PNP police. Both Evangeline Torres and Cecilia Ende were both being hunted by the …
The United States has deployed a P-8 Poseidon spy plane in Singapore for the first time, amid heightened tensions in the region over China’s expansive territorial claims in the South …
A New People’s Army Rebel was killed in an encounter with Army troops who were attempting to rescue two barangay officials who were waylaid by the NPA bandits. The fighting …
The USS Tuscon, a Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine stopped in Subic Bay during its Indo-Asia-Pacific deployment. Yesterday, the US Embassy in Manila reported that the submarine stopped in Subic Bay last …
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on Wednesday, sparking panic in the coastal city of Ambon. No immediate damage or loss of life was recorded, and …
The SALINLAHI Alliance for Children’s Concerns is upset over the acquittal of an Italian diplomat who was charged with a 2014 incident involving human trafficking and child abuse charges. Kharlo Manano, secretary …
In an updated report on the 50-million peso (an earlier report said 20-million) burning of construction equipment in the western region of Lake Sebu, a new report notes a one …
The British Columbia government will open a new trade and investment office in the Philippines as part of its ongoing drive to step-up its trade in the Asia-Pacific region. The …