Asian stocks tumbled to two-month lows on Friday after Wall Street shares suffered yet another big slide in the face of rapidly-rising bond yields, with perceived havens such as the yen and Swiss franc in demand amid the turmoil.

Local government units in Eastern Visayas have until March to finish the P2.52-billion rehabilitation of facilities damaged by super typhoon Yolanda in 2013 or see the funds revert to the central government.

Scientists have succeeded for the first time in growing human eggs in a laboratory from the earliest stages in ovarian tissue all the way to full maturity -- a scientific step that had previously been taken in mice.

MedCure Inc., a so-called body broker, profits by dissecting the bodies of altruistic donors and sending the parts to medical training and research companies.

Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos from Sacramento, California, play themselves in the movie 'The 15:17 to Paris.'

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, announced two key promotions to its executive team.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis dismissed concerns on Thursday that the United States was being dragged into a broader conflict in Syria, after a major clash with pro-Syrian government forces overnight that may have left 100 or more of them dead.

The Manila Economic and Cultural Office confirmed Thursday night that the Filipina reported missing after the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Hualien, Taiwan on Tuesday had died.

A United Nations human rights expert urged the government to see the preliminary examination the International Criminal Court into alleged extrajudicial killings in the “war on drugs” as an “opportunity to turn a definite page” in the bloody campaign and “undertake impartial and independent investigations into all allegations and provide remedies and reparations to the victims.”

The United States does not plan to contribute any money at a conference in Kuwait next week to fund Iraq’s reconstruction drive after the war against Islamic State forces, U.S. and Western officials said, a move critics say could deal a new blow to American standing internationally.

On September 2, Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state. Reuters uncovered the massacre and has pieced together how it unfolded. During the reporting of this article, two Reuters journalists were arrested by Myanmar police.

The word, or term, is appreciative attitude. We have to be thankful to, say, China, for many things. Many things; just watch this.

The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) on Thursday announced that the February retail electricity bill will nudge upward by P0.75 per kilowatt-hour. According to Larry Fernandez,...

The Blas F. Ople Policy Center, a non-government organization that assists distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), urged the labor department to prepare for the...

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Thursday said the PR machinery of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is working double-time...