Tag Archives: Philippine

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippine Sea on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 10:37 p.m. Philippine time, data from the agency shows. Read our coverage here. As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake’s reported magnitude. Additional information collected …

Chinese vessels have been challenging other vessels over a contested part of the West Philippine Sea.

CNN  —  A Philippine court on Wednesday acquitted Nobel laureate Maria Ressa of tax evasion charges, ending years of legal hearings against the veteran Filipino-American journalist that she says were politically motivated. Ressa, CEO and founder of news site Rappler and a former CNN bureau chief, was cleared of four …

Hundreds of flights in and out of Manila are halted due to air traffic control malfuntion, stranding passengers at airports. Tens of thousands of travellers have been stranded at airports in the Philippines after a power outage caused a malfunction of air traffic control at the country’s busiest hub in …

Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its long-running guerrilla insurgency, died on Friday in exile in the Netherlands, where he had lived for decades. He was 83. His death, in a hospital in Utrecht, was announced by a spokesman for the party, Marco …

MANILA — At least seven people were killed and more than a hundred were plucked out of the sea on Monday after a passenger ferry caught fire in the Philippines, the latest maritime tragedy to hit the archipelago. The Mercraft 2 was carrying 124 passengers and 10 crew members when …

From: Counting the Cost Ferdinand Marcos Jr has won the presidential election, but there are challenges to achieving robust economic recovery. The Philippines has been battered by the pandemic and a deep recession. Now, after more than two years of lockdowns, people are returning to their everyday lives and the …