APEC SUMMIT | Beijing hosts friends, rivals; will it meet Japan? 

Will they or won’t they? Whether leaders of feuding China and Japan will meet during the Asia-Pacific summit has prompted much speculation. It’s the most — but not the only — awkward

Philippines | Year after Haiyan, some move on, others agonize

Four months after she lost her husband and home to Typhoon Haiyan’s fury, Agnes Bacsal gave birth to their sixth child — a sprightly boy, whose company has eased the

Boxing | Bob Arum believes Zou Shiming the ‘engine behind activity in China’

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum suggested that it is boxing star Zou Shiming, not Manny Pacquiao, who is “the engine behind all of activity in China.” A report by Newsday

South China Sea disputes | Taiwan conducts live fire drills on Spratlys, angering Vietnam

Taiwan’s coast guard was conducting a second day of live-fire drills on an island in the disputed Spratly chain, prompting condemnation from Vietnam. The drills are conducted annually on Taiping Island,

Caesars seeking to build USD1 billion casino in Philippines

Chairman Gary Loveman and Steven Tight, president of the Las Vegas-based casino owner’s international development unit, held preliminary talks with Philippine President Benigno Aquino last month in the U.S. to

Philippines | Marine murder suspect guarded by US in camp 

A U.S. Marine suspected in the gruesome killing of a transgender Filipino was flown yesterday from his warship to the Philippine military’s main camp, where he will continue to be guarded by

PHILIPPINES | Aquino questions intent of China ships

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said Tuesday his nation will stick up for its territorial rights in the disputed South China Sea and voiced concern that a recent mission by two

PHILIPPINES | Public awareness needed to preserve cultural heritage

The Philippines is hit by about 20 storms each year, and other severe natural disasters often affect this country, which is home to about 100 million people. Its cultural heritage

GGCT issues travel warning for Philippines

The Tourism Crisis Management Office (GGCT) last night issued a warning against traveling to the Philippines in the near future, due to the country’s worsening security conditions. The office cited a

PHILIPPINES | Typhoon Kalmaegi blows out of Philippines

A fast-moving typhoon blew out of the northern Philippines yesterday after causing flash floods and landslides. Three people died when big waves and strong winds sank a stalled ferry over

China issues travel warning for the Philippines 

China has warned its citizens not to travel to the Philippines after a Chinese teenager who worked in a family-run store was kidnapped and after government agents arrested a group of men

PHILIPPINES | Anti-China group nabbed for planned Manila attacks

Philippine authorities said yesterday that they arrested three men linked to a group that was planning to set off firebombs at Manila’s international airport and a major mall in the

PHILIPPINES| Peacekeepers pull ‘greatest escape’ in Golan 

Under cover of darkness, 40 Filipino peacekeepers made a daring escape after being surrounded and under fire for seven hours by Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights, Philippine officials said yesterday, leaving

PHILIPPINES | Manila protests Chinese ‘sovereignty patrols’

The Philippines will file a new diplomatic protest with China complaining about frequent patrols by Chinese ships in the South China Sea, the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. The department’s spokesman, Charles Jose, said

PHILIPPINES | Arrested militant: Terror suspect alive

A captured Abu Sayyaf commander told investigators that a top Southeast Asian terror suspect, who the military reported was killed in a U.S.-backed airstrike two years ago, is alive and

PHILIPPINES | 12 Chinese convicted of poaching

A Philippine court yesterday convicted 12 Chinese men of poaching after their boat carrying frozen meat of protected pangolins ran aground in a marine park. The Regional Trial Court in Puerto

PHILIPPINES | Super typhoon to bring rain as it threatens Japan

Typhoon Halong will probably bring downpours to the Philippines in the next few days as it passes offshore on a track to slam into southwestern Japan with winds gusting to

PHILIPPINES | Abu Sayyaf gunmen kill 21 civilians in road attack

Eleven other civilians were wounded as the group traveled in two vans in a coastal village in Talipao town in predominantly Muslim Sulu province, where the militants have survived in

PHILIPPINES | Soldiers clash with Muslim militants, 5 dead

Philippine troops attacked a Muslim militant hideout on southern Basilan island, triggering a clash that killed three Abu Sayyaf members believed to have been involved in the 2011 kidnapping of

PHILIPPINES | Army says 18 killed in rebel clashes

Breakaway Muslim rebels attacked army troops in two towns in the southern Philippines, sparking clashes that left 17 guerrillas and a soldier dead in a region where the government and

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