MANILA - As ASEAN chair for 2017, the Philippines hosted the 24th ASEAN Regional Forum that tackled the most compelling regional and international issues,...

China pushed for a maritime code of conduct with Southeast Asian countries that would not be legally binding, the Philippine foreign minister said on Tuesday. Critics say Beijing's end game is to either negotiate what amounts to a gentleman's agreement, or stall and buy time to expand its defense capability on its manmade islands.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) has homed in on one spot in Ozamiz City, specifically at Barangay Capucao-C, where tipsters had indicated was a...

The long-awaited construction of a new airport in this city has been endorsed as a priority project to the national government for funding, Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar said Tuesday.

Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano admitted that he had sought to exclude from the joint ministerial statement of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) wordings shunned by China, just to ensure the process of engagement does not stall.

Much has been expected from June Mar Fajardo and Greg Slaughter--two big men who, with their height, can easily dominate the PBA. But "The Kraken",...

Facing the team that denied its entry to the finals last conference, the Star Hotshots brought its A-game in the fourth period to pull...

A thriving trade in seafood across the Yalu River that separates China from North Korea has dramatically slowed, traders said, although there is still nearly a month to go for a United Nations deadline to tighten sanctions on Pyongyang as punishment for its missile tests.

ASEAN member states have vowed to promote their economic integration agenda which can drive inclusive growth and reduce development gaps in the region, despite criticism by civil society groups that the bloc's 50-year record had shown mostly "exclusionary" progress.

The Blackwater Elite may have finally found the right import in Henry Walker who carried them to their first win in the Oppo PBA...

Beleaguered Comelec chief Andres Bautista on Tuesday defended himself from personal attacks by the camp of his estranged wife, saying the allegations being hurled at him by Patricia Paz "Tisha" Cruz-Bautista were nothing but "foolish lies."

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) remains optimistic on the Philippine economy’s output in the near term amid the recent cut of its 2017 growth forecast to 6.6 percent from 6.8 percent.

A wait-and-see stance ahead of the release of the July 2017 inflation report in the US made investors hold on to the greenback, resulting in the sideways close of the Philippine peso and the main stocks gauge Tuesday.

The Philippine national men's basketball team seeks redemption as it opens its 2017 FIBA Asia Cup campaign against defending champion China on Wednesday at...

Cabanatuan City - Joint operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) based in Nueva Ecija and the Nueva Ecija police provincial office arrested...