When it comes to the Earth’s global surface temperature, 2020 came in hot — tying 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to a climate analysis published Thursday by NASA and the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The
Health limits due to pandemic significantly curtailed attendance to annual Philippine procession, which usually attracts more than a million people. Thousands of Catholic pilgrims gathered in the Philippine capital on Saturday to pay homage to the Black Nazarene statue of Jesus Christ,
Raid in Makassar in South Sulawesi by the Densus 88 unit led to a fatal shoot-out with two suspected fighters who resisted arrest. A counterterrorism unit raiding a hideout of armed fighters in central Indonesia on Wednesday shot dead two men suspected
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has rejected calls for a Senate investigation into the revelation that Filipino soldiers guarding him had already been inoculated with an unauthorised coronavirus vaccine smuggled from China. Duterte ordered the Presidential Security Group (PSG) soldiers late on Monday
Mindanao, Philippines – Shouting at the top of their lungs, more than a thousand residents of Polanco, a small town in the southern Philippines, stood shoulder-to-shoulder at a local park earlier this month to join a Christmas tree-lighting countdown, defying the national
South China Sea: Military exercises ‘must continue’ says expert Anger between the two nations has dominated discussion in the waters, with China reportedly behind a major downturn in fishing fortunes for the likes of nearby nations such as the Philippines and Vietnam.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sought to distance himself from alleged abuses by law enforcers under his watch, after a national outcry over the killing of a mother and her son by a police officer, which was captured on video and spread
Members of the Philippine army have been accused of committing a war crime, after posing for a photo with the body of a suspected communist rebel fighter, who is also the daughter of a member of Congress. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said
The South China Sea is home to huge oil and natural gas reserves believed to be under the water’s seabed. The Philippines’ Energy Secretary, Alfonso Cusi, said the PXP Energy Corporation can survey the Reed Bank in the South China Sea without partnership
More than 300 houses were buried under volcanic rocks and mud flows from Mayon Volcano in severely hit Albay province in the Bicol region, a lawmaker said. Storm surges hit some coastal towns, while rivers overflowed and dikes were destroyed, submerging several