Manila, Philippines News

MANILA, Philippines : Officials say heavy rains have triggered a landslide that killed at least four people and injured 26 others in the central Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine police filed criminal complaints today against an opposition lawyer, three retired colonels and a former police officer for allegedly plotting to overthrow President Gloria ...

By TERESA CEROJANO The Associated Press Thursday, July 3, 2008; 6:58 AM MANILA, Philippines -- Suspected communist guerrillas launched a series of attacks Thursday in the southern Philippines, lobbing a grenade ...

Two gunmen on a motorcycle ambushed Bert Sison, 60, as he drove home late Monday with two of his daughters in Sariaya, a township 62 miles southeast of Manila, Senior Police Officer Rodolfo Lindog said.

MANILA, Philippines - A woodcarver was convicted today of killing a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer who disappeared while hiking in the northern Philippines' mountainside rice terraces.

MANILA, Philippines : Communist guerrillas attacked a police station and burned a cellular phone transmission tower in the southern Philippines, sparking clashes with government forces that killed at least 11 ...

Relatives throw flowers into the sea near the location of the sunken passenger ferry, MV Princess of the Stars, following a mass, by the Sibuyan Sea in central Philippines , Thursday June 26, 2008.

An activists throws plastic bags with red paint as they pelt the main office of Petron oil company at the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines on Friday June 27, 2008.

Divers having difficulty removing bodies from a capsized ferry were forced to use heavy weights to help pull the dead out of the upside-down vessel, Philippine officials said Thursday.

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Rescuers battled huge waves and strong winds Sunday to reach a ferry that capsized during a deadly typhoon in the Philippines a day earlier, but found no immediate signs of the more than 740 passengers and ...

The Philippine Red Cross says the death toll from Typhoon Fengshen has risen to at least 155.

The storm has submerged entire communities in torrential downpours and setting off landslides.

In addition to the dead, more than 740 passengers and crew from a passenger ferry that ran aground Saturday were missing. Only four survivors from the ship have been found so far.

Sen. Richard Gordon, head of the national Red Cross, says the figure of 155 dead is based on field reports from his staff.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Amherst Daily News MANILA, Philippines _ Flash floods and landslides killed at least 12 people in the southern Philippines early Saturday as Typhoon Fengshen slammed into the region ...

Consumers in the Socsargen region on Wednesday appealed to officials to immediately release their P500 subsidy as promised for "lifeline" users or those with a monthly electricity consumption of 100 ...

MANILA, Philippines - Members of a fraternity at the University of the Philippines held their annual ritual of running naked on campus six months early on Wednesday _ by official request _ to celebrate the ...

Philippine Marines patrol the capital town of Jolo in volatile southern Philippines on Sunday June 15, 2008 as negotiators work on the release of popular television journalist Ces Drilon, cameraman and a Muslim ...

By DAVID CAGAHASTIAN President Arroyo leads today the Independence Day rites at the Rizal Park in Manila to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Philippine Independence.

MANILA, Philippines : Lawyers for Philippine victims of human rights abuses under late dictator Ferdinand Marcos said Friday they regretted a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning lower court rulings that ...

MANILA, Philippines ? Exxon Mobil will invest at least $100 million in offshore oil exploration near the Philippines, the company said Friday.