Joel Ejorcadas and Marlon Pepito Jr. stayed for hours at the shrine dedicated to the victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war, with candles lit in memory of their murdered kin.

This was before [human] trafficking laws [in the Philippines],” says Oebanda-Pacis. “Girls [were] promised work and a good life in Manila [by traffickers],” then were forced into brothels and ...

Half of Filipino families perceive themselves as poor, according to a survey from the Social Weather Survey published.

After fleeing Taliban persecution, three Afghan siblings’ hopes for asylum in the US were crushed under Trump’s border shutdown—leaving one stranded in Kabul, another in Panama, and one in Costa Rica ...

The production team revealed they traveled directly to the Philippines to secure the appearance of Manny Pacquiao, the ...

Last month, tens of thousands of Filipinos took to the streets following a series of revelations that some of the country’s ...

Mr Manuel Villar moved the land from one part of his corporate group to another and said its value shot up 25,000%. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Manila’s financial community perplexed after Manuel Villar says the site’s value had shot up to US$23.3b, from a mere US$93m Read more at The Business Times.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Chinese coast guard ships fired water cannons and rammed an anchored Philippine government vessel near Thitu ...

In another decisions, the Cabinet approved a state-wide sewage treatment and reuse policy for 424 urban local bodies. MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Cabinet on Tuesday approved a scheme that seeks to ...

Mumbai: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved the implementation of the slum cluster redevelopment scheme through Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) for projects on large private, govt, and semi-govt ...