Japan plans to give patrol boats to Manila—report
Japan plans to donate patrol boats costing $11 million each to the Philippines, ramping up regional efforts to monitor China’s maritime activity in disputed waters, a newspaper said Monday.
Japan plans to donate patrol boats costing $11 million each to the Philippines, ramping up regional efforts to monitor China’s maritime activity in disputed waters, a newspaper said Monday.
Six non-European prelates, including Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle, are set to join the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals on Saturday, a move welcomed by critics concerned that the body which will elect the future pope is too Eurocentric.
An Australian national who had been suffering from heart ailment was found dead Saturday night in his condominium unit in Manila, police said.
Having “more fun in the Philippines” supposedly does not include spending time in a police station to report a robbery, but that’s exactly what happened to Chinese tourist Ivana Liu of Shanghai and earlier to American national Ma. Teresa Rose Kennedy this week.
A joint gas and natural resources exploration with China of in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) is the “only practical solution” left for the Philippines to settle the dispute, a senator allied with the Aquino administration said on Wednesday.
The Philippines has lost the last direct flight to Europe with a decision by Air France-KLM to stop flying the route because of high taxes levied by the Philippine government.
Village officials have cordoned off the area where a man was shot dead by still unidentified suspect here in Pandacan, Manila Thursday evening.
A Japanese tourist was robbed of P80,000 in cash late Monday afternoon after two armed men forced him into a van outside a Manila mall and took him for a ride before abandoning him in Pasay City.
Imus Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle, a former member of a theological body once headed by Pope Benedict XVI before he became Pontiff, has been appointed the new archbishop of Manila.
Two armed men on board a sports utility vehicle allegedly handcuffed, then robbed a 60-year-old Croatian tourist of US$800 in Malate, Manila, on Wednesday night, police said.
MANILA, Philippines—An apology is too much, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said in response to the call for a formal apology from the government to the families and survivors of the Aug. 23, 2010, hostage-taking incident in Quirino Grandstand in Manila. “The President, on several occasions already made an expression of regret as to what [...]
