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The Philippines sought to play down simmering tensions with China on Sunday, saying Beijing was unlikely to resort to military action to resolve their...

Philippines on Saturday completed a 3-0 rout of Pakistan in its Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group II playoff second round tie. Philippines 3 Pakistan 0 Saturday’s...

Japan on Friday readied its missile defence systems to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it threatens the country, as the UN chief...

The number of people missing after devastating Philippines floods soared to more than 1,000 Friday, doubling the feared toll from a disaster that swept...

More than a thousand people are dead or missing after flash floods that ravaged the southern Philippines, the government said Tuesday as cities prepared...

Philippinesss rescuers struggled against mud, fatigue and the stench of death Sunday to help the survivors of devastating flash floods that killed more than...

Philippine police officers took the mugshots and fingerprints of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at a Manila hospital on Saturday, where she is under...

US President Barack Obama on Friday told Philippine President Benigno Aquino, who is embroiled in a territorial spat with China, that the US was...

The Philippine military accused Muslim rebels Wednesday of killing 19 soldiers on a remote southern island in one of the worst outbreaks of violence...

Thirteen assailants and two soldiers were killed when a little-known militant group attacked a military outpost in the lawless southern Philippines on Sunday, the...

The Philippines on Monday offered Muslim rebels waging a decades-long insurgency the prospect of autonomy, but warned they must first lay down their arms...

A suspected motorcycle bomb killed one person and wounded six others in a huge blast at a drugstore in the southern Philippines on Tuesday,...

Nearly 90,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Philippines due to floods caused by Tropical Storm Meari, with 15 people...

Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is a commendable programme in social sector and a step in right direction for poverty alleviation. Philippines also have...

Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Tuesday his country needed help from longtime ally the United States in its increasingly tense dispute with China over...

Additional District and Session Judge Khizar Hayyat Sial on Monday convicted Seti Tamanag, a Philippines national, for one year and fined her Rs 10,000...

MANILA - A moderate 5.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the Philippines early Saturday, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or tsunami warnings issued.
The earthquake struck at 2:29 am (18:29 GMT) around 105 kilometres (65 miles) southwest of Olongapo on the Philippines' Luzon island and 125 kms southwest of the capital Manila, the US Geological Survey said.
It hit at a relatively shallow depth of 24 kms (15 miles), the USGS said.
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