The key witness in the case of a Chilean bishop accused of covering sexual abuse said on Saturday he gave “eyeopening” testimony to a papally mandated investigator and hoped it would lead to the truth.

Pirates believed to have ties with the Abu Sayyaf tried but failed to hijack a cargo vessel off Basilan.

Student survivors of a mass shooting that killed 17 people at a Florida high school called for gun restrictions on Saturday during an angry and somber rally, but attendees at a nearby gun show said firearms could not be blamed for the massacre.

The Bishop of Tandag, Most Rev. Nereo P. Odchimar, DD, JCD, MBA on Sunday released a statement to news outlets calling for a multilateral...

Paramore's February 18 concert at the MOA Arena was rescheduled for August 23 this year.

(UPDATE - 7:52 a.m., February 18, 2018) At least 13 people on the ground, including three children, were killed when a Mexican military helicopter carrying top officials surveying damage from an earthquake crashed in a small town in the southern state of Oaxaca, authorities said on Saturday.

Brazil’s federal government on Friday ordered the army to take over command of police forces in Rio de Janeiro state in a bid to curb violence driven by drug gangs, who have “virtually taken over” Rio’s metropolitan area of 12 million people, President Michel Temer said in announcing the decree.

The Bangsamoro Transition Commission's version of the Bangsamoro Basic Law has been gaining tremendous support, with an official of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process claiming a 90 percent approval from people on the ground.

A broadcaster was mauled by an alleged supporter of Talisay City Mayor Neil Lizares III after he finished hosting his radio program Friday night.

Haiti’s president said on Friday that sexual misconduct by staff of British charity Oxfam was only the tip of an “iceberg” and called for investigations into Doctors Without Borders and other aid organizations which came to the country after its 2010 earthquake.

A South Korean shipbuilder that won the Philippine Navy’s frigate project has assured the Philippine government that it will “continue its utmost effort” to support fleet modernization even after it was barred by the South Korean Supreme Court from joining state-led bids over bribery issues.

(UPDATED - 3:30 p.m.) President Rodrigo Duterte’s tongue-in-cheek advice not to use condoms because these “aren’t pleasurable” demonstrated a “reckless disregard for the health of Filipinos” and threatens to set back the country’s efforts to combat HIV, a human rights watchdog said.

Beneficiaries of the government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program receiving subsidies through automated teller machines (ATMs) will get additional funds starting this February to alleviate the impact of higher prices of some commodities due to tax reform.

Economic activity is seen to get an additional boost from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) cut of banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR) to 19 percent effective March 2, 2018, according to the Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP).

Hundreds of families were reported to have fled their homes in two villages of Datu Abdullah Sangki after fighting broke out between followers of two Moro Islamic Liberation Front commanders.