Philippines

The ferry was supposed to carry a maximum of 42 passengers and crewmembers but was overloaded

Sarina Bolden’s 24th-minute header vs. New Zealand on Monday gave the Philippines its first ever goal in a Women’s World Cup tournament.

American and Filipino forces have launched their largest combat exercises in decades in waters across the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, where Washington has repeatedly warned China over its increasingly aggressive actions.

A ferry carrying about 250 passengers and crew caught fire in the southern Philippines and a governor says 31 people died. The victims either drowned or died in the blaze and were discovered later.

Google Doodle is celebrating the “tender, juicy and soulful” adobo, a popular Filipino dish and the first food from the country to be featured on the platform.

At least six men armed with assault rifles alighted from a convoy and opened fire on Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo, hitting him and a still-unspecified number of villagers at his home in Pamplona town.

The Philippines has accused a Chinese coast guard ship of hitting a Philippine coast guard vessel with a military-grade laser and temporarily blinding some of its crew in the disputed South China Sea.

Philippine officials say flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains have left at least 50 people dead. A regional interior minister said at least 42 people died in southern Maguindanao province. Eight others died elsewhere in the country from the onslaught of Tropical Storm Nalgae, which made landfall early Saturday in the country’s eastern coast. But the worst...

Philippine officials say at least 31 people have died and nine others are missing after flash floods and landslides were set off by torrential rains that swamped a southern province overnight.

A damaged Korean Air plane remains stuck in the grass at a Philippine airport after it overshot a runway in rainy weather the night before.

Former Philippine President Fidel Valdez Ramos, a U.S.-trained ex-general who saw action in the Korean and Vietnam wars and played a key role in a 1986 pro-democracy uprising that ousted a dictator, has died.

A strong earthquake has killed at least five people, injured dozens and damaged buildings in the northern Philippines. Patients were briefly evacuated from two hospitals in the capital. Scientists say the 7-magnitude quake Wednesday morning was centered around Abra province in a mountainous area, where one person was killed and dozens of others injured. Three villagers died and several more...

The namesake son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos appeared to have been elected Philippine president by a landslide in an astonishing reversal of the 1986 “People Power” pro-democracy revolt that booted his father into global infamy.

Heavy rains caused by a summer tropical depression have killed at least 25 people in the central and southern Philippines, mostly due to landslides