STATISTICAL highlights for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) this year showed that the Philippines was seventh among countries in the region in terms of tourist arrivals. The table ...

Negros Island, the fourth largest island in the Philippines, offers a journey through its rich history and breathtaking biodiversity. Negros Occidental, home to the historic sugar plantations and ...

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has named Lt. Gen. Arthur Cordura as the new commanding general of the Philippines Air Force (PAF). A graduate of the Philippines Military Academy ...

MANILA, Philippines — Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipina on death row in Indonesia who spent almost 15 years in prison for drug trafficking, has returned home early Wednesday morning, the Bureau of ...

A Filipina woman who had been on death row in Indonesia, and who was nearly executed by firing squad in 2015, arrived in Manila early Wednesday after ... Institution for Women in Mandaluyong, ...

The Philippines has ratified a new defence pact ... Japan’s ambassador to Manila, Kazuya Endo, was in attendance for the passing of the agreement. Endo welcomed the finalisation of the agreement ...

In November, Manila’s Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said China was “stepping up pressure on the Philippines to concede its sovereign rights in the South China Sea”, adding that his ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines maintained its position as second in Southeast Asia in the World Bank’s Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) for 2023. The latest SPI showed the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines stood before the United Nations on Tuesday, December 10 to assert its sovereign rights over Scarborough Shoal (Bajo de Masinloc), a coral reef formation ...

MANILA, Philippines — Human-induced climate change fuelled a rare string of back-to-back typhoons that battered the Philippines this year and boosted the chances of powerful storms making ...

The now-retired German geographer had just moved to Sablayan, a municipality on Mindoro island, southwest of Manila ... east of the reef — lobbied the Philippines’ Department of Environmental ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is one of emerging Asian economies less likely to be significantly affected by US president-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on imports, according to ...