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May 8, 2025 9:36 AM
The Philippines and China gave conflicting versions on Thursday of a maritime confrontation around a contested shoal in the South China Sea, the latest incident in a longstanding dispute between the neighbours. A Philippine Navy patrol near the disp...
March 11, 2025 1:04 PM
Before he was elected president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte already was nicknamed "The Punisher" and "Duterte Harry" for his years-long and often violent campaign against drug offenders as mayor of his hometown of Davao. He promised to take ...
March 11, 2025 11:18 AM
The Philippines' firebrand former leader Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on Tuesday at the request of the International Criminal Court, a major step in its investigation into thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings in a bloody "war on drugs" that de...
December 10, 2024 3:05 PM
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Tuesday that the country will not send its navy to support Filipino fishers in a contested shoal in the South China Sea despite a recent incident with Chinese vessels. "We will never be part of an esc...
December 6, 2024 1:30 PM
Relations between Manila and Beijing have soured under Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, with Manila pivoting back towards the United States which supports the Southeast Asian nation in its maritime disputes with China. Here is a timeline of...
November 16, 2024 11:51 AM
The Philippines evacuated tens of thousands of people from their homes and cancelled dozens of flights on Saturday, as a super typhoon threatened to unleash heavy rains and powerful winds that could trigger floods and storm surges. Packing winds of ...
October 28, 2024 5:08 PM
Tsewang Gyalpo Arya, the Dalai Lama's representative for Japan and East Asia, concluded his official visit to the Philippines, where he spotlighted the ongoing struggle for Tibetan autonomy and human rights. The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) ...
October 10, 2024 10:37 AM
Following the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) forecast of over 7% GDP growth for the entire financial year 2024-25, a recent State Bank of India (SBI) report has highlighted that such a scenario of rate cuts accompanying high growth rates has rarely, i...
September 3, 2024 10:47 AM
At least 13 people have died in the Philippines due to tropical storm Yagi, while schools and government offices were closed in Manila and nearby provinces on Tuesday because of expected bad weather. Yagi, locally known as Enteng, made landfall on M...
August 31, 2024 2:42 PM
China and the Philippines accused each other of ramming their ships in a disputed area of the South China Sea on Saturday, the latest in an escalating series of clashes in the vital waterway. China's coast guard said a Philippine ship, "illegally st...
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