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Government troops attacked an Abu Sayyaf camp in the rebels' southern stronghold before dawn Tuesday, triggering a five-hour clash in which five of the al-Qaida-linked militants were killed and one government militiaman was wounded, the military said.
A fire swept through a residential building as people slept in a slum community in the central Philippines on Monday, killing 16 residents including women and children.
The Philippine government rejected a $2 million ransom demanded by the kidnappers of an ailing Irish priest in the country's volatile south and said Sunday that efforts would continue to safely secure his freedom.
The World Health Organization will send an emergency team to help the Philippines fight a bacterial disease outbreak that has killed at least 148 people and sickened nearly 2,000 in and around the flood-hit capital, officials said Thursday.
Ousted Philippines leader Joseph Estrada, convicted of plunder and later pardoned, publicly declared Wednesday his intention to run in next year's presidential elections despite legal challenges and immediate objections to the idea of his political comeback.
A propeller-driven plane on a test flight crashed and burst into flames in a suburb of the Philippine capital on Saturday, killing at least four people onboard, airport officials said.
A Philippine military tribunal acquitted 11 officers Thursday of plotting a foiled 2006 coup against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
A representative of gunmen holding an ailing Irish priest hostage in the southern Philippines made contact Thursday with his Roman Catholic mission, a military commander said.
When a powerful storm inundated the Philippines last month, most people rushed to save their homes or their lives. Employees of one museum, however, grabbed the shoes.
Muslim militants with ties to al-Qaida planted a bomb that wounded two civilians in the southern Philippines and in a separate attack shelled a runway near where U.S. counterterrorism troops are based, officials said Thursday.
A strong earthquake struck south of the Philippines on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
President Barack Obama is expressing his condolences for the loss of life and devastation caused by recent storms in the Philippines.
The United Nations appealed Tuesday for $74 million to help 1 million flood victims in the Philippines, which has been lashed by two major storms.
Two bomb attacks in one day in the southern Philippines — the first of which killed two U.S. soldiers — could signal that al-Qaida-linked militants are launching a new offensive in the region, officials said Wednesday.
A popular Philippine actress cried out for help from a rooftop as a tropical storm roared and floodwaters rose menacingly. Then an actor emerged from nowhere on a speedboat and swept her to safety.
Flood victims trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centers in the Philippines, as the death toll rose to 246 from waters that submerged the homes of more than 2 million people.
The Philippine coast guard says the wreckage of a U.S. tank has been dredged from Manila Bay's muddy seafloor more than 60 years after the end of World War II.
The Philippine government will review a 10-year-old military agreement with the United States after Filipino senators called for its renegotiation or termination because it allegedly violates the constitution, officials said Thursday.
Al-Qaida-linked militants ambushed a convoy of Marines returning to base Monday after raising the Philippine flag on a rebel camp they overran, killing eight troops and wounding nine others, officials said.
The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group warned Saturday that fighting could break out again if efforts to revive peace talks fail, saying a new truce remains fragile.
The son of late Philippine leader Corazon "Cory" Aquino announced Wednesday he will run for president next year to continue the legacy of his mother, who became the country's democracy icon for standing up to dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
A Philippine air force helicopter plucked to safety Monday a woman who drifted for about 30 hours in choppy seas after the sinking of a ferry that left nine dead. Only one of the nearly 1,000 people who were on board is now unaccounted for.
Police have captured a suspected al-Qaida-linked militant accused in the high-profile kidnappings of at least four Americans and dozens of Filipinos in the southern Philippines, officials said Tuesday.
Fourteen years after a mass kidnapping of four Americans and other vacationers at a Philippine resort, an alleged Muslim militant accused of leading the hostage-taking has been brought to the United States to face criminal charges.
U.S. officials on Friday denied American troops were violating Philippine laws by engaging in combat against Muslim militants, saying they were only training Filipino soldiers and their mission was temporary.
Migrante Sees Malacañang's Hand in its Delisting from Party-List by Comelec[Manila, Philippines] Their advocacy has often placed them in conflict with government officials. However, they do this not to spite the government but to remind it of its job of protecting the rights and welfare of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
CBCP maintains it won't endorse candidates[Manila, Philippines] With six months to go before the presidential elections, the Roman Catholic Church maintained it will not engage in partisan politics.
US Congress Withholds Military Aid to the Philippines Due to Human Rights Abuses[Manila, Philippines] The United States Congress has withheld the US$2-million military aid to the Philippines in 2010 due to human rights concerns.
Demonizing Erap Estrada Again[Manila, Philippines] With the Erap magic still glowing, as shown by the crowd of thousands that went to Tondo to witness Erap Estrada's official declaration to run for the presidency, there went the usual elite civil socialites, once again demonizing him, and even saying that …
Our surroundings or environment was given by God not only for our own use but also for the next generation or those who will exist next to us.
Erap-Binay team: Restrain Erap-Binay team: Restrain[Manila, Philippines] To this piece, that is the foremost political question about Erap Estrada and Jojo Binay.
Joseph Estrada's Tricycle[Manila, Philippines] Georgie Antonio, as the final act of loyalty to Joseph Estrada, has now decided to devote his energies, time, contacts, money and effort, to a movement that he has been thinking of for the past three decades.
Escudero: 'No angels, saints in politics' (Q&A)[Manila, Philippines] SEN. Francis "Chiz" Escudero wants to be the country's youngest president.
Yellows' platform of hypocrisy, hatred and revenge?[Manila, Philippines] Anybody with a sense of mental balance can easily gauge the gravity of our people's disorientation by just observing how they react to many issues of politics.
Law abiding and lawless[Manila, Philippines]A conference among lawyers and journalists from several Asian countries including the Philippines is concluding in Cebu.
Blackouts: The Yellows' Dark Age in the Philippines[Manila, Philippines] As we begin with this piece, we find ourselves in more dark days, reminiscent of the great Dark Age in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the time of Cory Aquino and Fidel Ramos.
Manila, Philippines - 30 October 2009, a day before the worldwide celebration of the Ang Dating Daan, Typhoon Santi threatens North and Central Luzon including Metro Manila with another tropical storm which is now on Signal No. 3 and 2.
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army"The often overlooked subplot of the wars of the post-9/11 period is their unprecedented scale of outsourcing and privatization," author Jeremy Scahill writes in The Nation.
Deposed and defamed Estrada formally declares bid to seek Philippine presidency anew[Manila, Philippines] The Erap magic was clearly alive and well yesterday as former President Joseph Estrada and Makati Mayor Jejomar "Jojo" Binay formally declared their candidacies for president and vice president, respectively, with energetic thousands in attendance in To …
UN official says Philippine poverty `unacceptable'Poverty in the Philippines remains at an "unacceptable" level years after it joined dozens of other countries in pledging to reduce the number of impoverished people by half by 2015, a U.N. official said Tuesday.
Trauma from typhoons & floods[Manila, Philippines] In the weeks following the destructive typhoon "Reming," leaving a ravaged Bicol region in its wake, many residents would still tremble at the first sign of rain. Children were most especially sensitive.
Some blame on Cory Aquino for the Metro Manila flooding?[Manila, Philippines] Below is in an e-mail to various groups on the Internet. The author, Adolfo Paglinawan, shows expert understanding of Luzon and NCR's flood issues, and he indicts Cory Aquino's vindictiveness and incompetence for the "Ondoy" devastation.
New presidential bid of RP's Estrada in motion[Manila, Philippines] Barring unforeseen hitches, former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada is set to announce on Wednesday his bid to win back in next year's polls the presidency that he lost in 2001 to a civilian-backed military revolt.
Using cellphones to change the worldIt's an unlikely medical device: a sleek smartphone more suited to a nightclub than a rural health clinic.
Review of E. San Juan's Toward Filipino Self-Determination: Beyond Transnational GlobalizationIn his latest book, Toward Filipino Self-Determination: Beyond Transnational Globalization, Epifanio San Juan Jr.
RP group urges watchful eye on Arroyo government's use of calamity fundMANILA — The recent onslaughts of storms Ondoy and Pepeng in the Philippines have drawn attention not only to the general lack of disaster preparedness in the country but also to how the government's so-called calamity funds have been spent in the last few years.
Where are the Filipino nationalists, anti-rapists & anti-murderers?[Manila, Philippines] Where are all of those organizations and nationalist who were out for the blood of Daniel Smith, the American Marine who was accused of raping a Pinay? Why are they not out in the streets protesting the fact that Spaniard Francisco "Paco" Larrañaga, a …
Irish priest seized in MindanaoAn Irish priest has been seized by gunmen in the troubled southern Philippines, local police say.
U.S. Troops Help Philippines As Storm Toll Tops 600American military helicopters ferried tons of aid Sunday to a northern Philippine mountain region facing shortages of food, gasoline and coffins after back-to-back typhoons killed more than 600 in the country.
US Troops Help Philippines Relief Effort as Storm Toll RisesThe Philippines has been ravaged by two back to back tropical storms blocking roads and washing away bridges, stretching govenment resourses to the breaking point.
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