カテゴリー: Philippines
President disapproves of alliance and made decision after ally’s visa was rescindedRodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, has given formal notice to the US of his decision to scrap a bilateral agreement covering visiting American troops, fo…
Action against ABS-CBN denounced as worst attack yet on press by Rodrigo DuterteActivists and media organisations in the Philippines have denounced Rodrigo Duterte’s government after its lawyers moved to strip the nation’s biggest media group of its fr…
Action against ABS-CBN denounced as worst attack yet on press by Rodrigo DuterteActivists and media organisations in the Philippines have denounced Rodrigo Duterte’s government after its lawyers moved to strip the nation’s biggest media group of its fr…
Woman, 38, who travelled with the only victim to die outside China and Hong Kong, is no longer infectious, says doctorThe first case of novel coronavirus in the Philippines – a Chinese tourist from Wuhan who had been travelling with a man who died of t…
Justice department says 13 other police officers will also be charged with corruption and drug offencesThe former chief police enforcer of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs will be charged with corruption for allegedly protecti…
The eruption of Taal volcano near Manila spewed lava into the sky, leaving villages blanketed by heavy ash. The falling ash pushed aviation officials to temporarily shut down the capital’s main airport, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights …
Thousands of people have fled the area surrounding Taal volcano in the Philippines, which has been erupting since Sunday. It has ejected ash up to 15km into the sky and has generated bursts of lightning within its ash cloudTaal volcano eruption: P…
Drone footage published on social media shows thick ashfall from the Taal volcano covering buildings, roads and trees in Batangas province in the Philippines. Clouds of ash were blown more than 62 miles (100km) north of the volcano, reaching Manila and…
A video captured from a nearby home in Tagaytay City shows volcanic lightning and a thick ash column erupting from the Taal volcano in the Philippines. Flights have been suspended and thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as the volcan…
Red-hot lava gushed out of the Taal volcano in the Philippines after a sudden eruption of ash and steam forced villagers to flee en masse and shut down offices and schools. Clouds of ash blew more than 60 miles north, reaching the capital, Manila, and …
Scientists warn ‘hazardous eruption’ imminent as offices, schools and airports closedLava has gushed out of a volcano in the Philippines after a sudden eruption of ash and steam that forced villagers to flee and shut down the country’s main airport, of…
Flights have been suspended and thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as the volcano spewed ash up to nine miles into the sky, prompting a warning from the Philippines of an ‘explosive eruption’Philippines warns of ‘explosive eruption’ as T…
About 8,000 residents ordered to evacuate volcano island and other high-risk townsA volcano near the Philippines capital has spewed ash up to nine miles (15km) into the sky, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people, the cancellation of flights a…
Toll could rise as internet and mobile phone networks are still cut off in some badly damaged areasA typhoon that ripped across central Philippines on Christmas Day, uprooting houses, wreaking havoc in popular tourist areas and devastating festive cele…
People stranded in evacuation centres and at ports as Typhoon Phanfone passes over string of islandsTyphoon Phanfone has pummelled the central Philippines on Christmas Day, bringing a wet and miserable holiday season to millions. Thousands were strande…