Fourteen countries reaffirmed in a joint statement that there is no legal basis for China’s expansive maritime claims in the ...

The Philippines has emerged as a global hub for upholding international law, particularly UNCLOS, after the landmark 2016 ...

The recent announcement by the World Bank (WB) that the Philippines had just passed from “lower-middle income” to ...

First the good news. Artificial intelligence (AI) has improved a lot since the first time I tried it, out of curiosity, two years ago. The bad news is that it cannot write my “Looking Back” ...

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who's facing an impeachment trial, says she expects to be “bloodied but unbowed” by ...

The Senate convened as an impeachment court for the first time against a sitting Philippine vice president, with Sara Duterte ...

Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s opinion on her impeachment trial attendance "is ...

A drone view shows a collapsed building after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in General Santos, Mindanao Island, the Philippines, on Monday. GENSAN DEV/REUTERS MANILA — An offshore magnitude 7.8 ...

Emerging as the world’s best destination for retirees looking to start a new chapter overseas, the Philippines has claimed the No. 1 spot in the Expatriate Group’s Retirement Abroad Index for 2026.

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GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines (AP) — Dozens of rescuers in hard hats scrambled out of a partially collapsed grocery in a southern Philippine city Wednesday as it was rattled by an aftershock from a ...