Manila is now preparing for “contingencies” after Taiwan imposed a second wave of sanctions against the Philippines over last week’s killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine Coast Guard personnel in waters off northern Luzon.
Taiwan held a military exercise Thursday in waters near the northern Philippines in response to the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman, after rejecting repeated apologies from Manila.
The wife of former police Senior Superintendent Cezar Mancao has appealed to the Aquino administration to help protect her husband from Senator Panfilo Lacson.
The security guard who witnessed the fatal assault on US Marine Maj. George Anikow in Makati City testified in court on Thursday, recounting the predawn “rumble” between the American and four Filipino men.
A Filipina and her son have been arrested along with three other suspects for the gun-for-hire murder of her Japanese husband, police said Saturday.
With the Anikow murder trial headed for a holiday break, the US Embassy in Manila on Friday reiterated its calls for justice—this time with a more strongly-worded condemnation of the November 24 killing.
The year 2012 is likely to be one of the deadliest for journalists around the world, with at least 67 killed so far while doing their jobs, a US-based media rights group said Tuesday.
A Japanese tourist was arrested and charged with murder in Alaminos City on Saturday minutes after he buried a fellow Japanese in a shallow grave in Camantiles Island, one of the islands of the Hundred Islands National Park there.
United States law enforcement officials are working with Philippine authorities in investigating the killing of an American Marine last Saturday, the US Embassy in Manila has said.
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines—Four people volunteered to undergo lie detector tests as police tried to solve the October 15 murder of an Australian yacht designer in his house in Itogon, Benguet, a police official said on Tuesday. Chief Superintendent Benjamin Magalong, Cordillera police director, said police also recovered clothes with bloodstains in a shack near [...]
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday voted overwhelmingly to extend the mandate of its probe into rights violations in Syria, condemning the “increasing number of massacres” in the country.
A third party is believed to have triggered the August 30 murder-suicide involving a “happy” Filipino couple in Sunnyside, Queens.
