International crime syndicates are increasingly using social networking sites such as Facebook to lure Filipinos into becoming drug mules.
A Philippine volcano erupted on Monday showering an entire town with ash, although there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
Police killed a gunman who took hostage a group of tourists on a bus in the Philippines capital, Manila, on Monday, a police official said.
A Filipino angry at being fired from the police was holding hostage 15 Hong Kong tourists and their driver on a bus in downtown Manila on Monday.
Parts of Manila may be without power until Friday after Typhoon Conson hit the Philippines’ main island of Luzon, killing at least 11 people.
World boxing champion Manny Pacquiao announced on Wednesday that he wanted to face Floyd Mayweather for his last professional fight.
Thousands of people made homeless after a spectacular fire ripped through a slum in Manila queued for food on Monday.
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/ 13 December 2009
Tribal gunmen in the southern Philippines on Sunday released 47 hostages they had been holding for three days.
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/ 26 November 2009
The main suspect in the massacre of 57 people in an election-related feud in the southern Philippines surrendered on Thursday.
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/ 24 November 2009
The Philippines placed two provinces and a city under emergency rule on Tuesday after gunmen killed 46 people in a brutal election-related massacre.
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/ 24 November 2009
The death toll from an attack on a group of journalists and politicians in the southern Philippines rose to 39 on Tuesday, police said.
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/ 23 November 2009
Philippine press organisations demanded justice after reporters were among 21 people murdered on Monday in a massacre in the lawless south.
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/ 23 November 2009
The Philippine government expressed outrage and vowed justice following the gruesome killings on Monday of 21 people.
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/ 11 October 2009
The Philippines shifted its efforts on Sunday to sending relief in northern provinces devastated by floods and cut off by landslides.
The death toll from two weeks of unprecedented storms across the northern Philippines soared past 540 on Friday after landslides consumed homes.
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/ 29 September 2009
Philippine authorities braced on Tuesday for another storm as the death toll from rain and floods from a weekend typhoon rose to 240.
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/ 28 September 2009
The Philippines on Monday appealed for international aid as it struggled to cope with floods that killed at least 140 people.
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/ 28 September 2009
Philippine health authorities warned on Monday of disease outbreaks following horror floods.
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/ 4 September 2009
Philippine boxing hero Manny Pacquiao declared on Friday he was determined to run for Congress next year despite a looming bout with Miguel Cotto.
Former Philippine president Corazon Aquino was a reluctant leader despite guiding her nation through a revolution that restored it to democracy.
The Philippines imposed a state of emergency on Tuesday on Jolo island and troops prepared for a possible rescue of three Red Cross workers.
The Philippines said it was impossible to comply with the demand of kidnappers holding three Red Cross workers to empty five towns of security forces.
Rebels blamed government forces on Friday for the death of a guerrilla leader’s daughter, saying her death made a resumption of peace talks impossible
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/ 13 February 2009
A Sri Lankan peace advocate was kidnapped on Friday in the southern Philippines, police and military officials said.
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/ 14 January 2009
The Philippines is ready to resume peace talks with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group, government’s chief peace negotiator said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 December 2008
At least 22 people were killed and 34 others were reported missing after a ferry capsized in the northern Philippines, the coast guard said on Monday.
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/ 7 September 2008
Rescue workers found eight bodies buried under tonnes of mud after days of monsoon rains loosened soil and buried about 20 makeshift houses.
A Qantas flight en route to Australia made an emergency stop in Manila on Friday, and authorities discovered a big hole in its fuselage.
Philippine investigators opened an inquiry on Wednesday into a ferry disaster believed to have killed 800.
Divers found ghostly white bodies floating inside a passenger ferry in the Philippines on Tuesday, raising fears of a mass grave below the waves.
Philippine rescuers hope to find more survivors from a passenger ferry with more than 850 people aboard capsized by Typhoon Fengshen.
Rescuers scoured the rough seas around a capsized ferry in the central Philippines on Monday in a desperate search for more than 800 people.