NAT directive for Filipinos receives backlash, Consulate says order not a ‘political issue’

The Philippine Consulate General in Macau has called on Filipino nationals to heed the new mandate from the local government that requires all Filipinos to

China to work with new Philippine gov’t to upgrade infrastructure: spokesperson

China is ready to work with the new government of the Philippines to advance project construction and build more benchmark projects for infrastructure cooperation, a Foreign

Marcos plays balancing act in meeting with China’s FM

New Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. met with China’s top diplomat yesterday to take up long-simmering disputes in the South China Sea, as he waded into foreign

Marcos takes helm, silent on father’s abuses

Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted dictator, praised his father’s legacy and glossed over its violent past as he was sworn in as Philippine

Ressa says courts to decide Rappler closure order

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa said her Rappler news website was operating “business as usual” yesterday and would let Philippine courts decide on a

Int’l court prosecutor seeks to reactivate probe

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Friday he has asked judges for authorization to resume his investigation “as quickly as possible” into the so-called war

Duterte’s daughter takes oath as vice president

Sara Duterte, the daughter of the outgoing populist president of the Philippines, took her oath yesterday as vice president following a landslide electoral victory she clinched

Activists ask top court to void Marcos Jr’s presidential win

Human rights activists have asked the Philippine Supreme Court to block Congress from proclaiming Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the next president, alleging that he lied when he

Allies of Marcos Jr. set to dominate Congress

Allies of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the presumptive next president of the Philippines, appear set to dominate both chambers of Congress, further alarming activists after the late

Elections 87% of voters opt for Marcos Jr.

87% of Filipinos in the Macau SAR have voted for the namesake son of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, securing a total of 8,699 votes.

Marcos Jr. won presidency, unofficial count shows

The namesake son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos appeared to have been elected Philippine president by a landslide in an astonishing reversal of the 1986 “People

Gunmen seize businessman in southern Philippines

Gunmen seized a businessman in front of his wife and son Wednesday in the southern Philippines and government forces were trying to track down the abductors and their victim, police

Philippines | Toll of Filipino commandos killed in rebel clash rises to 43

At least 43 Philippine police commandos were killed in a fierce battle with Muslim guerrillas after launching an assault in which they may have killed one of southeast Asia’s most-wanted terrorists, officials

Philippines | Manila: China’s reclamation in disputed reefs now massive

  China’s land reclamation in contested reefs in the South China Sea has become “massive,” and is continuing despite protests from other countries, a Philippine official said yesterday, citing surveillance photographs. Philippine

PHILIPPINES | Record 6 million turn out for pope’s final day in Manila

  A crowd estimated at a record 6 million people by officials poured into Manila’s rain-soaked streets and its biggest park yesterday as Pope Francis ended his Asian pilgrimage with an

Philippines | Pope arrives in Manila on first papal visit in 20 years 

  Ecstatic crowds greeted Pope Francis as he arrived yesterday in the Philippines, Asia’s most populous Catholic nation, for the first papal visit in 20 years. Church bells tolled across the country

AP Exclusive | Philippines : At least 25 wrong arrests mar anti-terror work

  More than a decade ago, the military declared they had killed an Abu Sayyaf kidnapping suspect named Abdulmukim Idris. Yet a man authorities accuse of being Idris continues to languish

Philippines | At least 20 rebels killed in southern province: military

At least 20 members of a renegade Muslim rebel group were reportedly killed as government forces shelled and assaulted their training camp in southern Philippine province of Maguindanao, the military

Philippines | AirAsia plane with 159 aboard overshoots runway

  An AirAsia Zest plane carrying 159 people overshot the runway and got stuck in a muddy field yesterday at an international airport in the central Philippines after landing from Manila

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CHINESE manufacturing contracted in December for the first time in seven months in another sign the slowdown in the world’s No. 2 economy is quickening, according to a survey of

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