Not only do Canadian mines in the Philippines degrade the environment and displace Indigenous communities, activists say, eco-defenders are targeted by the Philippine government for protesting them. A VICE World News investigation.

A strict curb on movements has been re-imposed in the capital Manila after a surge in Covid infections.

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.