Philippines News

Scientists say the cone-shaped Mayon volcano in the central Philippines has shot an ash plume into the air and are advising nearby residents to be ready to move in case of eruption.

E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.

Muslim rebels wants U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to visit volatile southern Philippines to look into the situation a year after fighting erupted following the failure of signing of a deal that would suppose give autonomy to the area.

MANILA, Philippines - Gunmen in camouflage stormed a plywood factory and abducted three workers Tuesday, a day after suspected Muslim militants beheaded a kidnapped schoolteacher on a nearby southern Philippine island, officials said.

Five policemen and a New People's Army rebel were killed and two other policemen were injured when they clashed with the leftist insurgents in Sorsogon, northern Philippines on Monday afternoon, a military official said.

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Zamboanga City,Philippines - Balita.dot.ph -November 4, 2009: -- Mayor, Celso Lobregat , has managed to convince bus operators and the owner of a bus terminal that was destroyed by fire on Monday evening to continue serving the public at the burned out terminal in barangay Guiwan , some five kilometers from the city proper.

Only Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo can save the ruling party from certain disintegration by running for the No.

Communist rebels have ambushed a group of policemen in the eastern Philippines, killing five officers and wounding two others, officials said.

Manila - Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said on Monday.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - " Abu Sayyaf gunmen beheaded a school principal they kidnapped in Sulu province in the southern Philippines after his family failed to pay ransom.

Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants in the southern Philippines beheaded a schoolteacher after kidnapping him last month, officials said Monday.

Official says 16 people killed in fire that gutted Philippine residential building.

Tom Clark and Violet Halverson of Sartell and Ellen and Bob Nelson of Bowlus are home from a tour of the Philippines celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Leyte landings.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit the Philippines next week for talks with top Philippine officials that is expected to include human rights issues in the country, China's Xinhua news agency reported quoting the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs as saying on Saturday.

A Norwegian government mediator is in the Philippines to seek the possible resumption of talks between the Philippine government and leftist Communist rebels, a senior official said Monday.

MANILA, Philippines - President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, next month in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights record.

Philippine political affairs are rarely straightforward. The former Spanish and U.S. colony, which also endured occupation under Japan during the Second World War, has experienced major upheavals since independence was finally achieved-and recognised, this time-in 1946.

The United Nations General Assembly has endorsed a report which found both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants were guilty of serious human rights violations during the 22-day conflict in the Gaza Strip over Christmas and New Year.

Antonio 'Tony' Q Alabastro, a sub-editor with Borneo Bulletin, has been chosen to receive the 2009 Bagong Bayani Award, which honours Philippines' outstanding and exemplary Overseas Filipino Workers s, the Philippine Embassy announced yesterday.