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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.
Tribal gunmen holding 57 people in the southern Philippines have agreed to free their captives, the hostage negotiator said, as the ordeal entered its second day.
New IT opportunities are being fueled by a $6.8B (US) Philippines Economic Recovery Program investing in infrastructure projects in areas including transportation, tourism, power, water and housing. Additionally, the Philippines is experiencing substantial IT growth backed by an estimated 24 million Filipino Internet users today, a 75 percent increase from 14 million in 2008. The Manila IBM ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine police on Wednesday named 161 suspects in the massacre of 57 people last month in the country's worst election violence, including government militiamen led by members of a powerful clan facing murder and rebellion charges.
MANILA (AFP)--Rebel forces loyal to a powerful Muslim clan whose area is under martial law in the southern Philippines have engaged troops in clashes, a senior government official said Monday.
Officials resumed talks Friday with government-armed former militiamen holding 57 villagers hostage in the southern Philippines, demanding that murder and banditry cases against them be dropped in exchange for the captives' release.
Security forces scoured jungle in the southern Philippines Thursday for two factory workers held by Al Qaeda-linked militants, after the severed head of one hostage was dumped in a park.
MANILA -(Dow Jones)- Demand for office space in the Philippines is expected to improve next year as the business process outsourcing industry expands, helping to stem the fall in rents, real estate services firm CB Richard Ellis said Wednesday.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Philippines is considering selling euro-denominated bonds next year to refinance maturing debt as investors’ appetite for dollar-denominated assets may be waning, finance officials said.
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police on Wednesday named 161 suspects in the massacre of 57 people last month in the country's worst election violence, including government militiamen led by members of a powerful clan facing murder and rebellion...
Can a Barcelona truck driver be expected to speak like a Buenos Aires banker? Can rules be imposed on a language spoken by 400 million people stretching from Madrid to Manila? The academic overseers of the language of Cervantes have taken an ambitious stab at...
MANILA (AFP)--The leaders of a Muslim clan in the southern Philippines where martial law was imposed following a massacre were charged with rebellion Wednesday, a justice department official said.
Hanoi - Vietnam has won a contract to export 400,000 tons of rice to the Philippines, authorities said Wednesday. Officials at the Vietnam Food Association confirmed Vietnam had won four out of six 100,000-ton lots to export to the Philippines at an ...
Manila - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is unlikely to be missed when she steps down next year after a nine-year rule marked by graft scandals and u...
Shariff Aguak, Philippines (AFP) Dec 9, 2009 - Filipino soldier Sergeant Hermie Quinlat had just been sent to fight communist rebels after a long campaign against Muslim separatists when he was given unexpected new orders: search and destroy your former militia allies.
MANILA (AFP)--At least 161 people are suspected of having directly participated in a political massacre in the southern Philippines, the nation's police chief said Wednesday.
