Davao traders are backing Senator Panfilo Lacson’s call to put off peace talks between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines until the insurgents prove their sincerity.

China has built new military facilities on islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. think tank reported on Thursday, a move that could raise tensions with Washington, which has accused Beijing of militarizing the vital waterway.

'Spider-Man: Homecoming', which had its Hollywood premiere on Thursday, opens July 6 in the Philippines.

(UPDATE - 11:08 a.m.) The Communist Party of the Philippines said the New People’s Army “must continue to seize the initiative and carry out more and more tactical offensives nationwide in order to derail and blunt” what it called the “Duterte regime’s all-out war,” which gave the rebels “no other choice but to intensify tactical offensives nationwide.”

Since late 2016, police have delivered hundreds of drug suspects to Manila hospitals. A Reuters investigation has revealed almost all were dead on arrival. Witnesses and family members say they were executed and their bodies removed from the scene in a police cover up.

The T-shirts featured their faces over images of The Doors, Ozzy Osbourne, Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

The chief of police of Malolos, Bulacan and two of his men were wounded while five drug suspects were killed in a series of operations, including a two-hour running gun battle that began as a botched buy bust operation in adjacent Calumpit.

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Two personnel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue were arrested Thursday by the National Bureau of Investigation right in their office in Manila in an entrapment operation set up following the complaint of a firm they were allegedly trying to extort money from.

The Philippine peso plunged to 50.53 against the US dollar Thursday, its lowest in almost 11 years since Sept. 11, 2006 though it was a little change from the 50.50 on Wednesday close. Share prices also slid amid foreign selling, the second straight day of negative close for the main stock index.

At barely four months to go before the scheduled Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, which are still uncertain to be conducted, the Commission on...

To political analyst Dindo Manhit, it is inherent in the projected image of President Rodrigo Duterte that he comes across as a popular, stern...

The military said Abdullah Maute's leadership wasn’t effective as terrorists wrangled over money and power - an indication that the group would eventually fall apart.

BEIJING - Relations between China and the Philippines have entered a "golden period of fast development", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday,...

MANILA, Philippines - At the time when his first anniversary as president comes around, President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies in the House of representatives expectedly...