Despite this drop, trade figures remain encouraging, but various departments need to address policy and other issues to boost exports
Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has taken up the fight against deepfake, a threat to journalism and democracy
These elections are a warning of how history can be washed over and and used to promote modern dynasties
Children from the age of six months to 17 years will take part in vaccine trials
The need for medical oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries has more than doubled in the past two months, and many of these countries faced oxygen shortages before the pandemic
Reliable news coverage is needed more than ever, but trust in the media is at an all-time low
Ressa is out on bail and faces years in prison if convicted under the criminal cyber-libel law
The drug war is Duterte’s signature initiative and is heavily supported by many Filipinos
47 male applicants would be interviewed on Wednesday and Thursday, after the government advertised the vacancies in February
Ressa posted bail after spending the night in detention at the National Bureau of Investigation
The Rappler news website is fighting a tide of disinformation and state-backed intimidation
Philippine authorities and aid agencies face a humanitarian crisis, with the number of people displaced by the catastrophe estimated at four million.
Finger-pointing in the Philippines is sure to worsen as the typhoon’s official death toll rises to nearly 4 000.
The Philippine government has increased its death toll from super Typhoon Haiyan to 3 621 – a figure which is still well below the UN’s estimate.
Taking the devastation wrought on their country as a warning, the Philippine delegation at COP19 has called for urgent progress on climate change.
In the devastating aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippine government has set up checkpoints and set a curfew in efforts to end looting.
The UN, Australia and the US have mobilised emergency aid as the scale of the devastation unleashed by super typhoon Haiyan emerges.
One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall in the Philippines has left more than 1 000 people dead in the country, says the Red Cross.
Philippine Catholic leaders are standing firm against contraception, abortion and gay marriage despite Pope Francis’ comments urging a change of tone.
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A Filipino wildlife photographer was seized with two tourists during a bird-watching trip. He tells the story of his escape from his captors hands.
The World Bank has released $500-million to help the Philippine government’s recovery and reconstruction efforts after Tropical Storm Washi.
The death toll from killer floods in the Philippines has surged by more than 200, over a week after the disaster struck with officials expecting more.
Philippine flood survivors queued for their Christmas meal in evacuation centres, spirits doused by thoughts of more than 2 000 dead or missing kin.
The number of people missing after devastating Philippine floods has soared to more than 1 000, doubling the feared toll.
Residents of two southern Philippines’ cities have begun the hard work of reclaiming their lives as authorities bury bodies in concrete vaults.
More than 1 000 people are dead or missing after flash floods that ravaged the southern Philippines as cities prepare for mass burials.
Flash floods have devastated a southern Philippines region unaccustomed to serious storms, killing at least 450 people while they slept.
The death toll from tropical storm Washi in the Phillipines is now said to have killed at least 436 people, many caught in their beds.
The Philippines offers a travelling academic extended tuition in the sensual sociology of food.
Typhoon Nanmadol has killed at least eight people and left flattened bridges and blocked roads in its wake as it moved away from the Philippines .
Plastic bottles jut from the roofs in a Manila slum, mushrooming across rows of shanty homes. But they aren’t just bottles — they bring light.
Philippine lawmakers on Tuesday opened debate on a reproductive health bill that seeks to improve access to information on contraception.