The chief of the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group’s Luzon field office was killed while another officer was wounded in a firefight early Saturday morning, December 23, that also left four suspects dead but their victim safely rescued.

Christmas church services and other celebrations are being held this weekend under the gaze of armed guards and security cameras in many countries after Islamic State gunmen attacked a Methodist church in Pakistan as a Sunday service began.

Leaders of Congress have deliberately caused “undue delay in the preparation and enrollment” of the joint resolution extending martial law in Mindanao for another year to thwart attempts to challenge it before the Supreme Court, an opposition lawmaker said Saturday, December 23.

Netflix’s original movie has a lot of potential but its storytelling is rushed and more focused on letting Will Smith be Will Smith.

For 36 years, Semirara has been the site of the Philippines’ largest open-pit coalmine. It is a farflung community that is host to highly bio-diverse flora and fauna, with 28 of the 35 known mangrove species in the country found on the island.

The play is notable for casting black, Asian and Latin actors (including Rachelle Ann Go) to play the roles of white historical figures.

A local leader of a sugar workers’ labor federation was stabbed dead in the lot she tilled in northern Negros Occidental Thursday, December 21.

President Rodrigo Duterte’s net satisfaction rating increased as the year came to a close despite most Filipinos’ opposition to the yearlong extension of martial law in Mindanao, the results of the Fourth Quarter 2017 Social Weather Survey showed.

Snowy penguin Christmas cards sold by a major British retailer came under scrutiny on Friday after one shopper found a handwritten note ostensibly from a Chinese prisoner inside.

Some human rights advocates say press freedom is under attack in Myanmar, even though decades of rule by a junta that tightly controlled the media has given way to a government led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Help build play therapy centers for Mindanao's young war survivors by purchasing The Body Shop's iconic Tea Tree Oil from December 23, to 25.

People who take a certain water pill prescribed to control fluid retention and treat high blood pressure may be more likely to get skin cancer than other individuals, a Danish study suggests.

Not many are aware of it but the sought after TV host holds a degree in hotel and restaurant management that exposed him a lot to the kitchen.

Take a break from the Yuletide rush with a Makati staycation that runs till January 10, 2018.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday for its November 29 intercontinental ballistic missile test, seeking to limit its access to refined petroleum products and crude oil and its earnings from workers abroad.