Tag: Philippine

Philippine Ambassador Jesus Yabes and his delegation met tour operators and agencies in the city on Thursday in order to encourage Philippine tourism in...

Two powerful explosions believed to be from home-made bombs ripped through a motel and a cock-fighting arena in the southern Philippines on Sunday, wounding...

The death toll from back-to-back typhoons that pummelled the Philippines last week has reached 82, the government said Thursday. Several towns on the main island...

Women in the southern Philippines brought peace to their strife-torn village by threatening to withhold sex if their men kept fighting, the UN refugee...

The United States rebuffed appeals to become more involved in the Philippine peace process by Muslim rebels who warned their homeland could be fractured...

A politically influential Christian sect in the Philippines said on Thursday that it had started building one of the world's biggest indoor arenas with...

Muslim rebels waging an insurgency in the southern Philippines snubbed a new government peace offer as inadequate, but both sides said Tuesday the proposal...

One man was killed and seven people injured in the southern Philippines on Monday when a car bomb exploded next to the convoy of...

The death toll from tropical storm Nock-ten rose to 52 in the Philippines even as another approaching storm left two more people missing, the...

Two Swedes have been jailed for life in the Philippines for violating human trafficking laws by running a live internet porn operation in a...

MANILA - Philippine authorities deployed troops in a southern town on Monday to stop fighting between two clans after 11 people were killed in a weekend attack, an army general said. Clan wars, locally known as "rido", are common in communities in the south and analysts say they pose a threat to fragile truce between the government and Muslim separatist guerrillas.
On Sunday, gunmen fired at civilian militia escorting local officials inspecting a road project in Mangudadatu

COTABATO - Hundreds of residents fled a remote Philippine village after 11 men including relatives of a powerful politician died in a clash with Muslim rebels, officials said Monday.
A 500-strong armoured army unit deployed in the deserted village of Tenok on Monday, a day after the clash, to keep about 150 gun-wielding clan members and 130 guerrillas apart, said local military spokesman Colonel Prudencio Asto.
"They would not want to engage our people, who are fully

BUTUAN - Philippine tribal gunmen abducted 16 children and adults in a bizarre bid to have their leader released from prison after he was jailed for another mass kidnapping, police said Saturday. The kidnappers have threatened to kill their hostages, who include at least two students and were taken captive on Friday from a number of schools in a remote town on the violence-plagued southern island of Mindanao, police said.
"They should behave because if they continue to come into

NESBRU - The Philippine government and communist rebels resumed peace talks near Oslo on Tuesday, more than six years after the last round broke down, but prospects for progress remained uncertain after the arrest hours earlier of a top guerilla leader. "Dialogue is not a sign of weakness. It is a strategy of the brave. It opens doors," Norway's deputy foreign minister Espen Barth Eide declared in opening remarks at a Nesbru hotel overlooking the icy Oslo fjord.
The two sides

MANILA - At least two people were killed and 15 injured when a bomb exploded on a crowded bus in the Philippine capital's financial district on Tuesday, authorities said.
The attack occurred two months after the United States and several other Western governments warned a terrorist attack in Manila was imminent, and followed a bus hijacking last year that left eight Hong Kong tourists dead. "The explosive must have been placed underneath the passenger seat," Metropolitan Manila

MANILA - The death toll from more than two weeks of heavy rains in the central and southern Philippines has risen to 51, disaster officials said on Sunday, as authorities stepped up their search for another 16 people missing at sea. Agriculture and infrastructure damage now exceeds 1.6 billion pesos ($36 million) after floodwaters inundated rural communities in about a third of the country's 80 provinces, said Benito Ramos, head of the government's disaster agency.
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Facebook and other social networking tools are being used by sex assailants in the Philippines to lure their victims, contributing to a rise in such crimes, national police said on Friday.
Police are investigating cases in which suspects used Facebook or text messages sent from mobile phones to lure people, especially minors, into sex, said national police spokesman Senior Superintendent Agrimero Cruz.
"They have networking, they have 'clans', they invite youths to join.