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Philippine court jails 17 militants for life for resort kidnappings
MANILA: Seventeen members of an Islamic State-linked militant group have been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping foreign and…
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ASEAN needs to speak out more on South China Sea: Philippine foreign secretary
MANILA-BEIJING TENSIONS IN SCS China and the Philippines have been at loggerheads over a string of confrontations in the South…
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American man abducted in southern Philippines
MANILA: Gunmen have abducted an American man living in the southern Philippines, shooting him in the leg and ferrying him away…
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Philippine VP Duterte threatens to dig up dictator Marcos’ remains
Duterte is facing impeachment threats in the House of Representatives, led by Marcos’s cousin Martin Romualdez, who is also expected…
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US, Philippines launch war games a day after China’s Taiwan drills
MANILA: Thousands of US and Filipino marines launched 10 days of joint exercises in the northern and western Philippines on Tuesday…
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Philippine defence minister doubts China’s intent on South China Sea code
MANILA: The Philippines doubts China’s intention to negotiate a regional code of conduct in the South China Sea although Manila…
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Philippines arrests alleged Chinese boss of scam farm network
MANILA: A Chinese man accused of running an extensive network of scam farms across the Philippines has been arrested, authorities…
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Philippines calls for urgency from China, ASEAN in negotiating South China Sea code
ASEAN leaders were joined in Laos on Thursday by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,…
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Detained Philippine pastor Apollo Quiboloy to run for senate
In May 2022, Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada won a senate seat while on trial for corruption. He took up the post…
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Philippines ex-president Duterte to run for city mayor
Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte registered his candidacy on Monday (Oct 7) to run for mayor of the southern city…
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