President Rodrigo Duterte has called on different countries to have a “collective action” on climate change amid the concerning impacts of weather disturbances on developing countries. During the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in China, Duterte thanked countries that helped the Philippines in times of calamities and called for a more “proactive measures” on climate change.

Law enforcement in Davao City familiar with the IBM program said the technology had assisted them in carrying out Duterte’s controversial anti-crime agenda. By George Joseph.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said he would “really kill” child molesting priests, in his latest broadside against the Catholic Church. Speaking on Sunday at a campaign rally in Cagayan de Oro City, Duterte said it would be “a better world” if all molesting priests were “killed tonight.” Duterte has been at odds with the country’s Catholic Church since before he took office in 2016.

A small-business owner on an island in the Philippines has become a local hero for pushing back at the growing number of international travelers who introduce themselves as “influencers” as a way to get free food, drinks and lodging. He made his stand on Siargao, a tear-drop-shaped island long popular with surfers. In recent years it has also drawn a large number of travelers who believe that their vacations should be free so long as they make Instagram stories, according to several local business owners.

Homo luzonensis fossils found in Luzon island cave, dating back up to 67,000 years

An international team of researchers have uncovered the remains of a new species of human in the Philippines, proving the region played a key role in hominin evolutionary history. The new species, Homo luzonensis is named after Luzon Island, where the more than 50,000 year old fossils were found during excavations at Callao Cave. Co-author and a lead member of the team, Professor Philip Piper from The Australian National University (ANU) says the findings represent a major breakthrough in our understanding of human evolution across Southeast Asia.

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

MANILA -- The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Monday that a mixture of sunny and rainy weather will continue to prevail across the country. Pagasa weather forecaster Shaira Nonot said cloudy skies with light to moderate rains and isolated thunderstorms will be experienced over Mindanao and the provinces of Mindoro and Palawan due to the presence of intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ).

'To light up the rest of the Philippines sustain-ably' was the vision of Filipina scientist Aisa Mijeno when she innovated the Sustainable Alternative Lighting (SALt) lamp.

Typhoon Goni blew out of the northern Philippines on Sunday after leaving at least 15 people dead and several others missing, including a dozen miners whose work camps were buried by a huge mudslide in a mountain village, officials said.

In May 2015, a scientific team ventured to Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park—a marine paradise within Asia’s Coral Triangle—to assess the biological status of the Philippines’ first ocean park. Over 1,000 species of animals, including many that are critically endangered, make their home in the sanctuary. It is essential habitat for the declining shark populations of Southeast Asia.