Eight government employees who were manning a checkpoint near a protected watershed in southern Philippines were reportedly abducted by seven armed men on Wednesday, China's Xinhua news agency reported quoting a military official as saying.

Manila - The Philippine weather bureau on Thursday cautioned the public against being complacent after a powerful typhoon threatening the country slowed down and weakened. Typhoon Lupit hovered over t...

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and UN-World Food Programme Executive Director Josette Sheeran visiting Candaba, Pampanga province, north of Manila yesterday, as relief goods are distribu...

Published Date: October 22, 2009 MANILA: Ousted Philippines leader Joseph Estrada, convicted of plunder and later pardoned, publicly declared yesterday his intention to run in next year's presidentia...

(CMFR/IFEX) - A Philippine legislator, one of the sons of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, has called for a tighter regulation over the content of the social networking site Facebook. Pampanga 2nd district Representative Juan Miguel "Mikey" Arroyo told "The Daily Tribune" that Facebook and other similar sites should be regulated to avoid "abuse by scrupulous (sic) people." Arroyo was reacting to a Facebook user's post from 27 September 2009: a photo allegedly showing Arroyo looking at an array of liquor in a supermarket in Quezon City a day after devastating floods brought by a tropical storm had hit Metro Manila. The Facebook account holder, as quoted by the "Philippine Daily Inquirer" in its 30 September edition, said in the post: "Was buying food for keeps . . . then we saw Mikey Arroyo in Rustan's (a supermarket) liquor section asking the salesman for a brand of hard alcoholic drink. Effin' crazy! Just a few kilometers away from Katipunan, people (needed) help for search and res

Some 38 to 40 percent of Metro Manila's residential and mid-rise buildings as well as 14 percent of the area's high-rise buildings could be destroyed in the event of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, which could happen anytime between now and the next 400 years, the chief of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said Wednesday.

Manila - Strong winds and rains on Thursday began to whip the extreme northern Philippines as Typhoon Lupit accelerated toward the country. Huge waves battered the coast, where hundreds of people prep...

T he Embassy of France in Manila announced on October 22 that the Republic of France will contribute an additional 800,000 euros (around 55 million pesos), in response to the World Food Program’...

The Philippine Armed Forces on Thursday said leftist New People's Army insurgents were behind the kidnapping of seven employees of the Department of Environment andNatural Resources in southern Philip...

The Philippine Army began mobilizing troops on Thursday in order to avoid losses and destructions that may be caused by typhoon "Ramil" (international code name: Lupit), which is expected to...