American national killed in Baguio road accident

A 75-year-old American man died Tuesday morning after his car slammed into a roadside barrier on Kennon Road in Baguio City, reports from the police and the Office of Civil Defense said.

A 75-year-old American man died Tuesday morning after his car slammed into a roadside barrier on Kennon Road in Baguio City, reports from the police and the Office of Civil Defense said.

A Vietnamese tourist on Saturday slashed his abdomen and died in a hospital here after a fellow Vietnamese refused to lend him money for his fare back to Vietnam.

Immigration officials released 52 Taiwanese and Chinese tourists on Tuesday night, almost 12 hours after they were taken to the Bureau of Immigration office here for verification of their passports and other travel documents.

At least 52 Chinese and Taiwanese tourists were turned over to the Bureau of Immigration here early Tuesday after their presence in a resort in Vigan City in Ilocos Sur raised suspicions.

The Philippines’ de facto ambassador to Taiwan has advised thousands of Filipino workers there to eat at home and avoid the streets while emotions run high on the island over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards last week.

Filipinos have been refused service in restaurants and supermarkets, as tensions continue to rise over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard in the Balintang Channel last week, said Amadito Perez Jr., chair of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco).

Her wedding gown and those of her entourage by a local designer are almost done. She was actually due for a fitting upon her scheduled return next month in her Camiling hometown in Tarlac.

A Cambodian student drowned in Tapia Falls near the Batad rice terraces here on Sunday, a police official said.

Police and Bureau of Immigration personnel arrested here, on Wednesday, an American charged in the the United States for possessing child pornographic materials.

President Aquino pitched for peace in resolving the Sabah conflict on Sunday, saying his administration prefers to talk things out.

BAGUIO CITY—There’s a fourth star on a redesigned Philippine flag for Sabah, courtesy of a movement that has campaigned for changes in the national banner for four decades to include a ninth ray of its sun to represent Muslims and indigenous Filipinos. The Ninth Ray, a historical reform movement born in 1969 at the [...]

The municipal government of Bolinao, Pangasinan, has asked the owners of the sunken ship, MV Harita Bauxite, to immediately stop the vessel’s oil from spilling into the West Philippine Sea to prevent it from causing further damage to coastal communities.