We should look to the Philippines, where barangays, or neighbourhood governments, help to empower communities
More than 1 000 people are dead or missing after flash floods that ravaged the southern Philippines as cities prepare for mass burials.
The Philippines offers a travelling academic extended tuition in the sensual sociology of food.
Hundreds of thousands of people already reeling from floods across the Philippines have been told to expect further heavy rains until March.
Phillipine President Benigno Aquino said on Monday investigators have identified a suspect in the Christmas day bombing of a church.
Police killed a gunman who took hostage a group of tourists on a bus in the Philippines capital, Manila, on Monday, a police official said.
A Filipino angry at being fired from the police was holding hostage 15 Hong Kong tourists and their driver on a bus in downtown Manila on Monday.
Thousands of people made homeless after a spectacular fire ripped through a slum in Manila queued for food on Monday.
The Philippines is ready to resume peace talks with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group, government’s chief peace negotiator said on Wednesday.
At least 22 people were killed and 34 others were reported missing after a ferry capsized in the northern Philippines, the coast guard said on Monday.
A Qantas flight en route to Australia made an emergency stop in Manila on Friday, and authorities discovered a big hole in its fuselage.
At least 229 people are dead after Typhoon Fengshen ravaged the central and southern Philippines — and more than 700 are missing after a ferry sank.
A Philippine ferry with more than 700 people on board capsized during a typhoon and most are missing, officials said on Sunday.
Typhoon Halong weakened as it crossed the northern Philippines on Sunday after displacing more than 7 000 people and causing landslides and flashfloods, officials said. Dozens of…
Climate change is one of the factors causing an increase in the incidence of diseases like malaria and dengue fever, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday. At least…
A strong earthquake measuring 6,9 struck in the ocean off the east coast of the Philippines on Monday night, but so far there have been no reports of damage, officials said. The…
Philippines security officials said on Thursday they had uncovered a plot by Islamic militants linked to the al-Qaeda network to assassinate President Gloria Arroyo. Her security…
Philippine authorities launched a manhunt on Friday for more suspects accused of helping stage a dramatic but short-lived rebellion against the government, which was put down by…
Renegade Philippine soldiers who had holed up in a Manila hotel on Thursday calling for the overthrow of the government surrendered after elite forces battered down the door and…
Fierce firefights broke out inside a five-star hotel in the Philippines capital on Thursday as government forces entered to arrest a group of military rebels, a reporter on the…
