Bangladesh is racing to turn an uninhabited and muddy Bay of Bengal island into home for 100,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar, amid conflicting signals from top Bangladeshi officials about whether the refugees would end up being stranded there.

The traditional catwalk show is dead and the way forward is to attract customers with new products each month says the chairman of the Italian luxury group.

The glass is slightly radioactive but the levels are about the same as electrical appliances like microwave ovens emit, so they represent no threat to health.

The lawsuit listed more than 60 resemblances between the play 'Let Me Hear You Whisper' and the Oscar best picture contender.

Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez urged the DFA to file a diplomatic protest against the United States for its intelligence report that listed President Rodrigo Duterte as among Southeast Asian leaders who pose a threat to democracy and human rights.

'Fascism, the populist perspective of this very new government, barbarism - it’s very violent,' Diaz said, comparing Duterte to Marcos.

Amid the 32nd anniversary of the 1986 EDSA people power uprising against the dictatorship of the Marcos regime, minority senators on Thursday joined calls for the "immediate release" of Sen. Leila de Lima, who will mark her first year in detention on Saturday, Feb. 24.

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that arming teachers could help prevent massacres such as last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school.

President Rodrigo Duterte is not an autocrat and is taking seriously a report by the U.S. intelligence community that names the firebrand leader among the threats to democracy in Southeast Asia, his spokesman said on Wednesday.

The Philippine government on Wednesday asked a court to declare the communist party and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), a terrorist organization, dashing already faint hopes of a recovery in a tattered peace process.

The Philippine government is securing financing from China for its infrastructure projects in an effort to fast-track their implementation, according to the country’s chief economist.

The government is considering three kinds of tax amnesty as part of an overall bid to overhaul taxation in the country, the Finance chief said on Tuesday.

Concepcion Industrial Corp. (CIC) will spend some PHP50 to PHP80 million to adopt Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for its air conditioning products.

The Philippine peso improved against the greenback for the second-day in a row Wednesday as dealers take profit while the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) ended its five-day rally.

Banking solutions company Bank-Genie with corporate headquarters in Singapore has announced it will establish its presence in Manila to service a growing clientele.