A German foreign minister will be in Manila to discuss bilateral, trade and regional ties with Philippine officials, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced Monday.
He missed her courtesy call during her trip to Manila last November, but President Aquino made it up to International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum here.
GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy–An Italian island on Saturday prepared to mark the first anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise disaster, as officials promised the 290-meter (951-foot) wreck will be removed by September. Survivors and victims’ relatives began to arrive on Giglio for a commemoration on Sunday for the 32 passengers and crew who perished that [...]
A court in southern Sweden has convicted a man of ordering online sex shows involving very young Filipino girls and sentenced him to eight years in prison.
VATICAN CITY—Pope Benedict XVI urged world leaders on Monday to try to reduce the growing gap between the rich and the poor in regions such as Europe as they reform their economies. The pontiff also used his annual New Year’s speech at the Vatican to diplomats to press concerns he had raised in his [...]
The 27-nation European Union, the United States and a score of other countries on Wednesday launched a “global alliance” to stamp out trade in online images and videos of child sexual abuse.
The United Kingdom has urged the Philippines to strengthen its antimoney laundering law as UK underlined the importance of legislation in plugging corruption and terrorist funding.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa, who led his country in its transition from communist rule to democracy, on Sunday called on Filipino journalists to help shape the future of the Philippines.
President Benigno Aquino III will be pushing for firm support of the development of Bangsamoro and enhanced economic and political ties with European leaders when he attends the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem9) in Vientiane, Laos early next month.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday said that stronger ties could be expected between the Philippines and France following French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault’s first visit to Manila. “The political goodwill and the economic gains achieved by the first visit of a French head of government augur well for stronger [...]
Pope Benedict XVI canonized the Philippines’ second saint on Sunday, giving one of the Church’s top honors to the 17th-century teen martyr Pedro Calungsod before throngs of Filipinos in St. Peter’s Square
