カテゴリー: Philippines
Ampatuan family convicted over killing of 58 people in 2009 attack on political rivals Members of one of the Philippines’ most powerful political clans have been found guilty of a massacre that left 57 people dead in the country’s worst case of electio…
Law imposed two and a half years ago to try to stop Islamic State gaining presenceRodrigo Duterte will lift martial law in the southern Philippines by the end of the year, his spokesman has said, more than two years after it was imposed in an attempt t…
Australian federal police say livestreaming of children performing sexual acts marks ‘alarming shift’ Australian paedophiles are paying as little as A$15 for children to perform sexual acts online while being filmed in the Philippines, according to the…
More than 200,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, say officials, after Typhoon Kammuri slammed into the central Philippines.The typhoon, the country’s 20th this year, brought winds of up to 124mph (200km/h) and caused flooding and landslid…
Philippines organisers admit ‘inconveniences’ have seen teams stranded at airports and players underfedThe organisers behind the Southeast Asian Games have apologised after complaints emerged of football teams sleeping on floors, airport delays and ath…
Allan and Wilma Hyrons found in Sulu province where they had been held by Isis affiliatesTroops in the Philippines have rescued a British national and his Filipina wife who were abducted by gunmen at a beach resort last month and taken to the jungle hi…
The Westpac bank scandal has brought the role of financial institutions in enabling child sexual abuse into sharp reliefOn 25 October plainclothes police barged through the red door of a family home in a dense neighbourhood in Rizal, a province two hou…
Bahareh Zare Bahari was subject of Interpol arrest warrant after criticising regimeThe Philippine government has granted asylum to an Iranian former beauty queen and critic of the Iranian regime after she was stranded for four weeks in an airport.Bahar…
A former Iranian beauty queen has been stuck at Manila’s international airport since 17 October, when Iran issued an Interpol notice for her arrest. Bahareh Zare Bahari says she will be killed if she is sent back home and is seeking asylum in the Phili…
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…
Bahareh Zare Bahari is in limbo in Manila’s airport, saying Tehran wants her back to punish her for criticising regime A former Iranian beauty queen has spoken of the toll on her mental health as she enters her third week stranded in a Philippines airp…
World Organisation for Animal Health warns spread of disease has inflamed worldwide crisisAbout a quarter of the global pig population is expected to die as a result of an epidemic of African swine fever (ASF), according to the intergovernmental organi…
Bahareh Zare Bahari says she is being sought for praising critic of Tehran regimeA former Miss Iran has spent a week in a Philippines airport as she fights to claim asylum in the south-east Asian country, saying she fears execution in Iran on political…
Rodrigo Duterte, the 74-year-old president of the Philippines, was filmed riding his motorbike in the compound of the presidential palace in a video shared on social media by a senator. The leader later crashed, hurting his elbow and knee, but suffered…
Incident occurred when the 74-year-old president ‘reached for his shoe and fell off’Rodrigo Duterte, the 74-year-old president of the Philippines, has hurt his hip and suffered scratches in a motorcycle accident, senior aides have said.Duterte, whose h…