To give you a special dose of nature, I have set a rendezvous with yet another ecotourism destination, and this time it is the mesmerizing Philippines. This Southeast Asian country with 7107 islands is bounded by the Philippine Sea in the east,...

The son of a Philippines clan boss, suspected of the massacre of at least 57 journalists and political activists, turned himself in today, as investigators announced that the entire police force of his family’s ancestral town was under...

The suspected mastermind of Monday’s massacre in the southern Philippines is the son of a powerful local politician who is also a key local supporter of the country’s President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, police said today. The...

The Philippines placed two southern provinces and a city under emergency rule on Tuesday after gunmen killed 46 people in a brutal election-related massacre that has shocked the country. Many of the victims in the killings in Maguindanao province...

The wife of a candidate for governor and about 30 others were abducted Monday morning in the southern Philippines — with at least 21 of them later killed, army officials said. The woman was on her way to file her husband’s nomination...

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, reports say. He also reportedly went to a tourist area and shot at a group...

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 rebel died. New People’s Army guerrillas triggered a land mine under a...

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 Monday. Major-General Ben Dolorfino, commander of military forces in the western...

Portraying reality as reality is the most sincere and effective way of communication, than the photoshopped or retouched beautification of half-truths. This is also true in the case of advertising, as it is all about effective...

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 Ketsana) than mull over whether Obama deserved his N— Peace Prize, but...