At least five people have died in a shooting incident in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific. The gunman killed four local people in the main island of Saipan,...

Communist rebels killed 12 security forces when they responded to an attack on a logging company in the southern Philippines, the military said Friday. At least one...

Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said on...

I know I should be attending more to my car repairs and house repainting (I was a victim, too, of the recent massive flooding of Metro Manila, thanks to Cyclone...

Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut...

A powerful typhoon Saturday battered extreme northern Philippines with forceful winds and heavy rains, but spared the capital and surrounding areas still recovering...

Victims of floods in the Philippines trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centres in search of scarce food and clean water today, as the government...

Rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers and debris-strewn streets Tuesday, pushing the toll from flooding in the northern Philippines to more than 284 dead or...

Passengers leapt into the dark sea and parents dropped children into life rafts when a ferry carrying nearly 1,000 people capsized in the middle of the night in the...

The global effects of recession have resulted to numerous setbacks worldwide. Conflicts among nations, particularly the war against terrorism, worsen the situation....

The fighting was sparked by military raids on Abu Sayyaf militant training camps in the villages of Silangkum and Baguindan on the southern island province of Basilan,...

Three French tourists died when their vehicle was swept into the water; two local tourist guides also died when they tried to rescue them, she said. Heavy rain...

Ex-president of Philippines and global icon of democracy Miss Corazon Aquino died on Saturday (August 01, 2009) at the age of 76. She had been suffering from colon...

She passed away 8 hours ago, after a 16-month battle with colon cancer which doctors found a week ago to have spread to her liver. I don’t wish to remember Cory on...

Some men marry for love, other for the men, and then there are the romantic type who marry for the kidney. A Saudi man falls in that third category. The Philippines...

In Jack Balkin’s Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, memes are said to be the foundation of ideological thought, and that they form the cultural ideas behind...

Two separate blasts rocked the restive southern Philippines and killed six civilians Tuesday morning, bringing the death toll to 12 in bombings there over the past...

The Uighurs are an ethnic group composed mostly of Muslim people who want their territory, the Xinjiang province in western China, to become independent. In their claim...

Introspecting (yes, I indulge in it once in a while), I find 10 good reasons why I can’t seem to haul myself on the panic bandwagon of this global warming...

The United States used to own the commercial and diplomatic franchise in Southeast Asia’s economic and political fate and fortune. Such is no longer the case. China...