投稿者: Associated Press in Manila
USS Higgins and USS Cincinnati sailed near Scarborough Shoal after Chinese tried to drive away Philippine vesselThe US has briefly deployed two warships in a disputed South China Sea shoal where two Chinese ships collided earlier in the week while tryi…
Former president to run in his home city of Davao despite ICC’s investigation into possible crime against humanityThe former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, whose anti-drugs crackdown is being investigated by the international criminal court as a…
Killer of Juan Jumalon, 57, pretended to be a listener to enter home studio in Misamis Occidental provinceA radio anchor in the southern Philippines has been fatally shot by a man inside his studio in a brazen attack witnessed by people watching the pr…
Second world war ship found broken in two at depth of 22,916 feet in Philippines at ‘hallowed war grave’A US navy destroyer that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest sea battle of the second world war in the Philippines has become the deepe…
Sara Duterte will stand alongside son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 2022 elections in move that has alarmed rights activistsThe Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter has registered her candidacy for vice-president in next year’s elec…
Officer was taking part in raid on cockfights when one of the birds severed his femoral arteryThe police chief of a Philippine town has been killed during a raid on an illegal cockfight when one of the razor-sharp metal blades worn by the birds cut an …
President’s move to free Joseph Scott Pemberton condemned as ‘shameless mockery of justice’The Philippine president has pardoned a US Marine in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment for the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman th…
Leni Robredo says ‘if I can save even one innocent life’ from deadly Philippines crackdown it will be worth the political priceThe vice-president of the Philippines, Leni Robredo, has accepted President Rodrigo Duterte’s offer for her to play a lead ro…
Jennifer Erin Talbot arrested at Manila airport after allegedly hiding newborn in sling bagAn American woman has been charged with human trafficking for allegedly attempting to smuggle an undocumented six-day-old baby out of the Philippines hidden in a…