Fishermen and restaurant owners in Taiwan prepared for typhoon Chanthu on Saturday, tying up ships in the Harbour and preparing to close shop/ Chanthu was downgraded to a medium typhoon on Saturday by Taiwan's weather authorities, who said that while it would bring heavy rain and gusting winds to most of the island it was unlikely to make direct landfall.

Taiwan prepares as weakening typhoon approaches

A Philippine military plane carrying at least 92 people, most of them army personnel, has crashed in the southern part of the country on Sunday, the chief of the armed forces reported.

Philippine military plane carrying 92 people crashes; 40 rescued, 45 dead

17 people have died after a Philippine military plane carrying at least 92 people, most of them army personnel crashed in the southern part of the country on Sunday.

Philippine: Plane with 92 people on board crashes

Dozens of Muslim militants occupied a public market overnight in the southern Philippines before fleeing after a tense standoff with government forces, officials said on Saturday.

Philippine troops drive away armed rebels from public market 

Human rights groups called on the Philippine government to investigate what they said was the use of "lethal force" during police raids on Sunday that left at least nine activists dead.

Rights groups call for investigation into killings of Philippine activists

Indonesian police on Wednesday shot down two Indonesian militants linked to 2019 Philippine church blast, said the authorities. The officers arrested scores of pro-Islamic State radicals.

Indonesian police gun down two militants linked to 2019 Philippine church bombing

The world has been under lockdowns and quarantines for almost a year now. Some have been arrested for staging anti-lockdown protests, but the most unlucky incident has happened to a Philippine man who has been fined for breaking a quarantine for merely eight seconds.

WATCH| Philippine man fined $3,600 for 8-second quarantine breach in Taiwan

Manila city Mayor Isko Moreno feels insulted. Calling the mislabeling an attack on the Philippine sovereignty, he clarified that he is not the Governor of China but the Mayor of Manila.

'Governor of Manila, not China': Isko Moreno's statement takes over Twitter with #ProvinceOfChina

Twin blasts including a suicide bombing killed 14 people and wounded 74 others on a restive southern Philippine island on Monday, among them security forces and civilians, with Islamist militants suspected of being behind the attack.

Philippines dual bomb blast, Two female suicide attackers carried bomb blasts

A mutation of the novel coronavirus increasingly common throughout Europe and recently detected in Malaysia may be more infectious but appears less deadly, according to a prominent infectious diseases doctor.

Infectious COVID-19 mutation may be 'a good thing', says disease expert

Philippine navy chief has called for a diplomatic protests against the two Chinese research ships that have been present in the disputed area of the South China Sea for the last few days.

Philippine navy chief calls diplomatic protest against Chinese ‘provocation’ in South China Sea

German payment group Wirecard recently announced that 1.9 billion Euros ($2.13 billion) earlier counted in foreign accounts "was never there". While this information came as a big shock, the latest developments in the case are even more shocking.

Wirecard fraud: Ex-COO Marsalek's immigration papers in Philippines were faked

The Philippines' iconic and notoriously packed and polluting jeepneys were back on the road in the capital's thoroughfares for the first time on Friday (July 3) following the government's further easing of measures to revive an economy squeezed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Iconic jeepneys back on the road in Philippine capital

Millions of people woke up confused, confined and frustrated in the Philippines on Tuesday, as a sweeping home quarantine order kicked in with just a few hours of warning, and Southeast Asia prepared tighter measures against a surge in coronavirus cases.

Confusion, concern as locked-down Philippines starts coronavirus quarantine

Vehicles entering the Philippine capital were stuck in kilometer-long queues Monday at checkpoints enforcing a quarantine aimed at curbing the nation's rising coronavirus cases.

Checkpoint queues stretch for kilometres in Manila amid coronavirus

The Philippines has detected an outbreak of avian flu in a northern province after tests showed presence of the highly infectious H5N6 subtype of the influenza, a virus in a quail farm, the country's farm minister said on Monday.

Philippines detects bird flu outbreak in quail farm

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday announced a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Manila, as well as community quarantine measures, in what he called a "lockdown" of the capital to arrest the spread of coronavirus.

Philippines' Duterte announces 'lockdown' of Manila to fight coronavirus

Philippine police on Monday surrounded a shopping mall in an upscale district in Manila after a gunman opened fire and took people inside hostage. The incident happened at the V-Mall in the San Juan area of the Philippine capital.

Gunman takes hostages at Manila Mall in Philippines

A volcano near the Philippine capital Manila spewed a massive cloud of ash into the sky on Sunday, forcing the precautionary evacuation of thousands of residents, authorities said.

Thousands evacuate as Philippine volcano rumbles

The number of deaths from a powerful storm that hit the Philippines on Christmas has climbed to 41, authorities said Sunday, with tens of thousands still in evacuation centres.

Philippines Christmas typhoon death toll climbs to 41

A strong earthquake struck near the Philippine city of Davao on Sunday, killing a child, damaging buildings and causing several injuries, officials said, the latest in a series of tremors to strike the southern part of the country in recent months.

Southern Philippines' strong quake kills one, injures several

Seven members of a Philippine "dragon boat" team were killed Wednesday when their boat capsized off the island of Boracay as they trained for an international race, rescuers and colleagues said.

Seven rowers die in training accident off top Philippine resort

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has offered big bounties for hundreds of convicted murderers and rapists set free in a corrections bureau blunder and said he would be happier if they were caught dead rather than alive.

Preferably dead: President Duterte offers cash for the capture of freed Filipino felons

Iran seized a boat and arrested 12 Filipinos as it busted a "fuel-smuggling ring" in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported.

Iran seizes boat in Strait of Hormuz, arrests Filipinos: Report

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