A super typhoon roared toward the Philippines on Thursday (Sept 13), prompting thousands to evacuate ahead of its heavy rains and fierce winds that are set to strike at the weekend before moving on to China. Typhoon Mangkhut, which has already blasted through the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, is speeding across the Pacific with winds that can gust as high as 255km per hour. Authorities said some 10 million people in the Philippines are in the storm’s path, not including millions more in heavily-populated coastal China.

In a speech during his meeting with members of the Filipino community here, Duterte recalled how he cursed Obama in public for criticizing his war on drugs and for telling him to uphold human rights. According to Duterte, Obama should know not to criticize a country for the problems that it is trying to solve.

Raul Gomez is an old man who fishes with five crew on a clipper in the seas known as the coral triangle, and he has spent two months now without taking enough to feed his family. Riding out storms and searing heat in western Pacific waters, the burly, sun-inked Filipino uses a pole and line to reel in yellowfin tuna the size of an adult human. This has been his trade for 40 years, but it is becoming tougher as fisheries in this region – one of the planet’s most important centres of tuna production – face the prospect of total collapse.

Rodrigo Duterte has been condemned by women's rights groups after the Philippine president joked about the number of rape case in the southern city of Davao. At a public event on Thursday, Duterte suggested that the high number of rape cases recorded in Davao was due to the 'many beautiful women' in his home city. "They say there are many rape cases in Davao," Duterte said at the event in Cebu. "Well, for as long as there are many beautiful women, there will be many rape cases, too."

A controversial Philippines mayor who gained notoriety for parading people arrested on drug offenses was shot and killed by a sniper at a flag-raising ceremony Tanauan City Hall Monday morning. Tanauan City Mayor Antonio Halili was killed by a single shot to the chest from an unknown assailant, Police Superintendent Renato Mercado told CNN, in a hit captured on video which showed scenes of panic seconds after the shot was fired.

A second town mayor in the Philippines was shot and killed by an unidentified man in a road attack, one day after the mayor of another city was gunned down in a daylight sniper attack. Tuesday's killing prompted an opposition senator to call the country the "murder capital of Asia". Mayor Ferdinand Bote of the General Tinio town was leaving a government compound in a sports utility vehicle in the northern Nueva Ecija province when a man on a motorcycle shot him repeatedly with a pistol. The gunman escaped, police said.

The assassination of two provincial mayors in two days has raised fresh fears that law and order in the Philippines—already in a fragile state as the result of a bloody war on drugs—is deteriorating further. On Tuesday, motorcycle-riding gunmen ambushed Mayor Ferdinand Bote in his car after he left a meeting in Cabanatuan City, about 100 miles north of Manila. The morning before, a suspected sniper shot Mayor Antonio Halili in the chest as he sung the national anthem in front of Tanauan City Hall in Batangas, about 40 miles south of the capital.

Rodrigo Duterte sparked outrage in his largely Roman Catholic country by saying that if just one Christian told him truthfully that they had been to heaven and had a conversation with God, he would quit. He also attacked the Catholic Church for collecting funds from members, accusing it of using donations to "maintain the palaces and the luxurious things that the rest of humanity do not have".

The United States will return to the Philippines church bells seized by U.S. troops as trophies during a war between the two countries more than a century ago, giving way to Manila after years of diplomatic pressure. U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has notified Congress that the department plans to return the Bells of Balangiga to the Philippines at a date yet to be identified, the U.S. Embassy in Manila said in a statement on Saturday.

If you have recently become engaged to a Filipina lady, or if you have been married in the Philippines, you will be required to file an immigration visa application in order for your fiancee, or wife, to immigrate to the USA. The immigration process can be a stressful experience for many people. If not properly …

Brian Mullaton is 13 years old and makes his living by diving into deep, muddy holes. He works on a floating wooden platform in shallow Mambulao Bay in what is one of the world's most dangerous professions: compressor mining. On a typical day, he makes the equivalent of $5.

Weeks before Benigno Aquino III was elected president of the Philippines in 2010, the rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front hosted a secret meeting with a high-ranking US embassy official and two American dignitaries. The impending national elections and the stalled peace talks in the southern Philippines dominated dinner conversation.

Tomas Etzler is a journalist and filmmaker who has covered everything from the war in Afghanistan to the 2011 Japanese tsunami. His most recent assignment took him to one of the most remote destinations in the South China Sea to witness firsthand a unique international dispute.

Forty-four Fijian soldiers working as U.N. peacekeepers remained captive to a militant group in Syria on Friday while 75 Philippine soldiers were in tense standoff with the rebels, according to the two Pacific nations.

New islands are being made in the disputed South China Sea by the might of the Chinese state. But a group of marooned Filipinos on a rusting wreck is trying to stand in the way.

Thousands of people are being evacuated from the area around an active volcano in the Philippines after the country's seismology agency issued an alert

The Philippines has evacuated more than 12,000 people from around the foot of its most active volcano as the crater glows red and authorities warn of a possible eruption. Mount Mayon, known for its near-perfect cone shape in the coconut-growing central Bicol region, has recorded a series of recent quakes and rockfalls, indicating a possible eruption within weeks.

Philippine officials said Saturday they had set a new world record for the most trees planted in an hour, with 3.2 million seedlings sown as part of a national forestation programme.

If there's one thing the Philippines do not need, it's another super typhoon. Parts of the country, particularly the island of Samar, are still picking up the pieces after last year's devastating Super Typhoon Haiyan, which was one of the most powerful storms ever to make landfall anywhere. While Super Typhoon Hagupit, which is also known as Ruby in the Philippines, will not strike with nearly the same ferocity, it presents a deadly array of threats to the Philippines, including its densely...

Pope Francis will leave Manila in record-setting fashion, after an estimated 6 million people came out for his final mass there on Sunday.

How twice-bankrupted Melbourne businessman Peter Gerard Scully filmed himself allegedly sexually abusing two kidnapped Filipino girls aged 10 and 11 and made them dig what they believed to be their own grave has shocked Philippine investigators. Already accused of killing a teenage Filipino girl and hiding her body in a septic tank under his "horror" house and sexually abusing a one-year-old baby, new allegations have emerged in the southern Philippines of 52-year-old...

Residents of the Philippines are being put on alert for potential impacts from Typhoon Noul, which will be a powerful typhoon when it approaches the Philippines this weekend.

At least six people were hurt when a portion of the ceiling of a cinema inside Ayala Center Cebu here collapsed during a launching event of a business process outsourcing company about 8:50 p.m. on Monday. At least 350 people were attending the launching event and team building of Dreamscape Networks inside Cinema 5 when water suddenly poured from the ceiling, said employee Carlo Florentino.

A guy got the surprise of his life when his sim suddenly got disconnected, he got booted out of his online accounts and his bank almost gets emptied by an identity thief.

The worst part is the boy who perished was initially pinned by the fallen pole but was ultimately killed by his chair collapsing and stabbing him on the torso.

It's basically a penthouse!

This is disheartening to read. What's worse is the people who are standing against this law proclaim empty platitudes from their lofty palaces while those who could use it the most are too busy scrambling for a living to stand up for it.

It's sunny and clear in the PH today but it looks like it might not last long

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A teenager who was kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf gunmen in March escaped her captors Monday when government troops discovered the militants' jungle hideout in the southern Philippines, the military said.

A look at the beached WWII era battleship that the Philippines is using as an outpost in it's South China sea dispute.

The singer is accused of not turning up at a scheduled concert.

The rapper, who was prevented from leaving the Philippines due to a lookout bulletin order from the DOJ, posts on Instagram from his hotel room

Artificial islands the size of about 800 football fields have been built on the West Philippine Sea in less than two years. These islands, which international observers call China’s “Great Wall of Sand”, expanded at a staggering pace after the Philippines filed an arbitration case before a United Nations court in January 2013.

After a leading botanist was killed by the Philippine Army, his work lives on in the science of citizens