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RENO, Nev. - University of Nevada swimmers Marichi Gandionco and Heidi Gem Ong will represent the Philippines at the 25th Southeast Asia Games being held Dec. 9-18 at Vientiane, Laos. Both swimmers are from Quezon City and are scheduled to take the pool on Thursday.
MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Gunmen in the troubled southern Philippines Thursday kidnapped dozens of people including children before releasing them, authorities said.
The Filipino club at Sacramento State hosted a talent show to raise money for the October typhoon victims in the Philippines.
A Filipino activist holds a mock axe painted with a slogan to dramatize their condemnation of martial law during a protest at the historic Mendiola bridge near the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines on Tuesday.
MANILA, Philippines — Police named 100 government militiamen as additional suspects in the Philippines' worst political massacre Wednesday as prosecutors filed rebellion charges against a powerful clan accused of ordering the brutal attack on a rival's campaign convoy.
MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Philippines human rights panel says it will investigate claims that hundreds of people were killed in 2001 in Maguindanao, scene of a massacre last month.
One of three Filipino factory workers kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines last month has been beheaded, a government official said on Wednesday.
Manila - The Philippines and Muslim secessionist rebels have agreed to reconstitute and expand an international team monitoring a ceasefire agreement in the country's troubled south, a joint statement said Thursday. Peace panels of the government and...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine official says suspected bandits have seized about 75 hostages, including elementary school students and teachers, from a southern village.
Manila - A group of armed men Thursday seized at least 65 people, mostly school children, in the southern Philippines, the military and police said. Chief Superintendent Lino Calingasan said about 25 heavily armed men abducted the hostages in the vil...
Manila - Suspected Muslim militants have beheaded one of three abducted employees of a factory in the southern Philippines, a military spokesman said Thursday. The severed head of Marques Singson was found inside a backpack that was abandoned in a pu...
Gunmen took 75 people, including children, hostage on Thursday in the southern Philippines, after police tried to serve an arrest warrant on one of their leaders. The children were later released.
Suspected bandits abducted dozens of villagers in the southern Philippines on Thursday and were still holding about 60 of them hostage, including schoolchildren and teachers, officials said.
Manila - Five scavengers were killed Wednesday when a wayward garbage truck ran over them in a landfill in the Philippines, police said. The victims were picking up scraps at the dump in Rodriguez town in Rizal province, 30 kilometres east of Manila,...
Armed bandits released about 75 of students and teachers they had taken hostage earlier on Thursday in the southern Philippines, military officials told BBC News.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Philippines is watching gains in the peso as further appreciation could dull the benefits of rising overseas remittances and recovering exports, Economic Planning Secretary Augusto Santos said.
