MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine defense chief on Monday called China's expansive claims in the South China Sea as ...

SEVERAL areas in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Batangas, Cavite, Rizal, and Laguna will have power interruptions this week because of various maintenance work, Meralco said Sunday. In Quezon City, customers ...

With 7,641 islands, the Philippines is home to an unspoken competition among lesser-known destinations vying to become the ...

Seven years after Blanco was kidnapped, another Claretian missionary — Father Rhoel Gallardo, after whom the Claretians’ Philippine province was named — was abducted then killed. The same ...

(Photo courtesy of Aurora Provincial Police) BALER, Aurora – Aurora’s provincial police arrested four fugitives, two of them high-profile most wanted persons, in a series of province-wide operations ...

Manila (AFP) – The local government in a resource-rich Philippine province has unanimously voted in favour of a 50-year ban on new mining permits, a decision its supporters said cannot be ...

The local government in a resource-rich Philippine province has unanimously voted in favour of a 50-year ban on new mining permits, a decision its supporters said cannot be overridden by Manila.

Population counts are conducted every five years in the Philippines. The large number of registered voters in these provinces makes them key battlegrounds in the upcoming May 12 elections.

Located in Mindanao's Bukidnon province, the 2,880-metre Kalatungan is the fifth-tallest mountain in the Philippines. Bergante said bringing the servicemen's remains down the mountainside was now ...