Philippines

Philippine landslide death toll rises to 37 

The aftermath of a devastating landslide in the southern Philippines has left about 37…

Biden sympathises with the Philippines over plane crash

U.S. President Joe Biden has commiserated with the people of the Philippines over the…

PHOTOS: Drama as popular web developer names son ‘HTML’

A Philippine web designer has named his son Hypertext Mark-up Language Rayo Pascual (HTML).…

VIDEO: Man dies after doing 300 squats as punishment for breaking COVID-19 curfew

A 28-year-old man, who violated Covid-19 curfew rules in the Philippines, has died after…

Philippines leader wants to get COVID-19 shots on buttocks

The Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte wants to get inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine in…

Philippines police kill Nigeria’s Onyechefula during drug bust, recover N102.5m meth

Gabriel Onyechefula, a Nigerian national in the Philippines, has been killed after drug buy-bust…

Four miners die, six missing in landslide in Philippines

Four miners died in a landslide in the central Philippines after days of heavy…

Cock kills police officer in Philippines

A Philippine police officer was killed by a rooster with a blade attached to…

Philippines accuses Facebook of censoring pro-government content

The Philippines on Tuesday accused Facebook of censoring pro-government content which it said was…

5.5-magnitude earthquake rattles the southern Philippines

An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 shook Davao Oriental province in…

Philippines warns of more arrests for failure to follow mask rules

Philippine authorities on Wednesday warned that more people would be arrested for failing to…

Philippines police shoot four soldiers in deadly ‘mix-up’

Philippine authorities are investigating the deaths of four soldiers shot by police in the…

Facebook says no proof of malicious acts by fake accounts in Philippines

Facebook has yet to find evidence that user-reported accounts that proliferated in the Philippines…

Covid-19: Philippines report 291 new cases, tally at 5,223

The Philippines reported, on Tuesday, 291 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number…

Plane carrying coronavirus materials crashes, kills eight

A plane used as an air ambulance by the Philippine health department to carry…