CEBU CITY, (Philippines): A 23-year-old man, angered by accusations of being a thief, went on a killing rampage victimising his own father and an elderly neighbour in Brgy. Luka, Oslob town, southern Cebu on Friday (Feb 21).
CEBU CITY, (Philippines): A college student died after she reportedly fell from the terrace of a building located along Urgello Street, Brgy. Sambag 1 in Cebu City, at dawn on Wednesday (Nov 13).
With no mobile signal or internet to contact loved ones, typhoon survivors stranded on a devastated Philippine island have written letters to reassure worried relatives they are alive.
MANILA: Kristine (international name: Trami) intensified into a tropical storm early Tuesday (Oct 22), prompting the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration to raise Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 1 over 24 areas nationwide.
MANILA: Six people reportedly died due to the combined effects of Tropical Storm Ferdie (international name: Bebinca) and the southwest monsoon, locally known as habagat.
With no mobile signal or Internet to contact loved ones, typhoon survivors stranded on a devastated Philippine island have written letters to reassure worried relatives they are alive.
MANILA (AFP): The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has surged to 208, the national police said Monday (Dec 20), making it one of the deadliest storms to hit the country in recent years.
THE death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year rose to 108, official tallies showed, as efforts to deliver water and food to devastated islands ramped up.
More than 100 people have been killed in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, official tallies showed Sunday, as efforts to deliver water and food to devastated islands ramped up.
Authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people in the south of the country as tropical storm Dujuan approaches.
MANILA, Feb 21 (Bloomberg): Philippine authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people in the south of the country on Sunday as tropical storm Dujuan approaches.
MANILA (AFP): A former Philippine congressman and religious cult leader was arrested Thursday over his wife's killing and corrupt practices, police said, ending a years-long manhunt.
Despite the ravages of storms, seaweed farming is transforming the lives of Filipino families in traditionally male-dominated fishing communities, turning women into family breadwinners who are paying for their children to go to college.
As the world continues to battle and recover from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and governments look to institute policies to build back better and greener, we are at the same time affected by another global crisis – climate change – and the impact it has on women’s health, rights and equality.
As the world continues to battle and recover from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and governments look to institute policies to build back better and greener, we are at the same time affected by another global crisis - climate change - and the impact it has on women's health, rights and equality.
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): The government will ease restrictions, particularly on the unvaccinated, in areas where it will restore the more relaxed Alert Level 2 from Feb 1 to 15.
Nine people have died and hundreds have fallen ill with diarrhoea in areas of the Philippines wrecked by a typhoon last month, with aid officials warning of a health crisis as millions struggle to secure clean water and food.
Nine people have died and hundreds have fallen ill with diarrhoea in areas of the Philippines wrecked by a typhoon last month, with aid officials warning of a health crisis as millions struggle to secure clean water and food.
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): Stricter localised lockdowns will be implemented even as Metro Manila is placed under what is supposed to be the less restrictive general community quarantine (GCQ), which takes effect on Wednesday (Sept 8) until Sept 30.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine death toll from Typhoon Rai has crossed the 400 mark, the disaster agency said on Friday, as officials in some hard-hit provinces appealed for more supplies of food, water and shelter materials about two weeks after the storm struck.