Maritime schools that continue to defy government orders to close down substandard training programs are putting all Filipino seafarers in danger of being banned from European Union (EU) member flagged vessels.
A Quezon City court junked Tuesday a motion by American basketball player Jamelle Cornley, who is charged with thrashing a hotel and punching a policeman, for a reinvestigation and moved to another date Tuesday’s scheduled arraignment.
Police raided an outbound call center company at the Cebu Business Park in Cebu City Thursday on suspicion that it duped Americans into buying bogus gift cards.
What was meant to be a fun climb turned into a tragedy for 27 foreign mountaineers and their local guides when Mayon Volcano erupted on Tuesday and spewed hot rocks, killing five of them.
Millions of Malaysians voted Sunday in tight national elections that could see the long-ruling coalition ousted after nearly 56 years in power.
India’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it had asked China to withdraw troops who have allegedly advanced into disputed territory claimed by New Delhi in a remote area of the Himalayas.
The Philippines’ claim on Sabah should be revived, most respondents of the recently concluded INQUIRER.net poll said.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday that it was monitoring the recent massive explosion in a fertilizer plant in Waco, Texas that left many dead and hundreds more injured.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Tuesday it has beefed up its intelligence monitoring of the Abu Sayyaf and other threat groups in the country in the wake of the twin bombings during the Boston Marathon event in Boston, Massachussets.
President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday condemned the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing even as he expressed sympathy with the families of the victims.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported no threat of a tsunami from the magnitude 6.6 earthquake that shook the Solomon Islands on Sunday morning.
Let them go. Forgive and forget. This was the gist of what two ranking officials of the Chinese Embassy in Manila on Thursday were asking in trying to secure the immediate release of 12 Chinese fishermen accused of poaching in the Tubbataha Reef in the Sulu Sea.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in Northern Mindanao filed on Friday illegal mining charges, mineral theft and use of banned items, such as mercury, against a Chinese national and two Filipinos in the city prosecutor’s office here.
