Tragedy in Philippines, as Governor and five others shot dead

A provincial governor in the central Philippines and five others have been shot dead by unknown gunmen in the latest attack against local politicians.

Nigerian man and his lover arrested in Philippine for romance scam

Operatives of the Philippine National Police-Anti Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) have arrested a Nigerian national and his lover who are involved in an internet love scam worth PHP2.2 million in Bacoor City, Cavite. 

 

Disaster with 26 people injured as magnitude 6.4 quake hits Philippines

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Philippines injuring 26 people and damaging houses and public infrastructure, government agencies said on Wednesday October 26.


According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the tremor struck at 10:59 pm (1459 GMT) on Tuesday near Lagayan town in Abra province, 348 kilometres north of Manila.

Scare as 14 missing after Philippines sea collision

Philippine rescuers were searching Monday for 14 people missing after a local fishing boat collided with a cargo ship, authorities said.

Philippines’ Duterte says no school until there is a virus vaccine

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he will not allow students to go back to school until a coronavirus vaccine is available, even as some countries resume in-person classes.

So despicably weird and wicked!!! New mom stabs her 3 kids to death then stabs herself but survives (PHOTOS)

A nursing mother has been arrested after she stabbed her three kids to death.

Alas!!! Medical staff who lose their lives treating Coronavirus patients are 'lucky' to die for their country - Philippines President, Rodrigo Duterte says

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has raised eyebrows for saying medical staff who lose their lives treating Coronavirus patients are 'lucky' to die for their country. 

Couple get married despite backdrop of volcanic ash cloud in Philippines volcano eruption

A couple in the Philippines have got married and celebrated their big day despite a volcanic eruption just 12 miles (20km) away.

Chino Vaflor and Kat Palomar exchanged their vows in Cavite on Sunday, but the close proximity of the Taal volcano resulted in photographs of the nupitals being backdropped by a huge plume of volcanic ash and smoke.

KABOOM! Hit them, shoot them, but don't kill them' - Philippines President, Rodrigo Duterte urges people to attack corrupt officials

Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines has invited citizens to 'shoot but not kill' any corrupt public official they encounter.  

Oh goodness gracious! 43 snakes, other reptiles found in plane

No fewer than 88 living reptiles, including 43 poisonous snakes have been found in a plane heading to Austria.

Tragedy as 20 dead in Philippines bus crash on way to Christmas mass

Twenty pilgrims from the same extended family were killed Monday in a head-on bus collision while travelling to Christmas Day mass in the northern Philippines, police said.

A small bus taking the group to a dawn church service crashed into a larger bus in the town of Agoo killing 20 on board, including six children, police said.

Tragedy as Philippines storm kills over 100

At least more than 100 people have been killed as a tropical storm swept through the southern Philippines, with dozens more missing.

Storm Tembin brought flash flooding and mudslides to parts of Mindanao island, the BBC reports.

Oh gosh! Crocodile snatches child on Philippine tourist island

A 12-year-old girl is missing after being attacked by a crocodile on the Philippine island of Palawan, police said Saturday, just weeks after a similar incident in the region popular with foreign tourists.

The girl was fetching water in a heavily-forested area of the island Thursday when a crocodile dragged her away in front of her horrified siblings, a police report said.

Philippines President Duterte once stabbed a person to death, he says

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he stabbed a person to death as a teenager, in a defiant speech to promote his drug war ahead of a summit of world leaders in Manila.

Speaking to the local Filipino community in the Vietnamese city of Danang on Thursday, Duterte also threatened to slap a UN rights rapporteur if he met her, and used obscene language to hit back at critics of his deadly drugs crackdown.

Scare as officer found shot dead at Philippine presidential compound

An officer in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s elite military security force was found shot dead on Tuesday inside the sprawling presidential compound, an official said.

Major Harin Gonzaga, 37, was found by his wife with a gunshot wound to the heart inside his room in the Malacanang compound in Manila, said Brigadier General Lope Dagoy, head of the Presidential Security Group.

Disappointment as high-heels shoe banned by Government

The Federal Government of the Philippines, through its labour department, has issued an order banning private companies from demanding female employees to wear high-heeled shoes at work.

A labour group that proposed the new directive said that the order makes Philippines the first country in Asia to ban the mandatory wearing of high heels in workplace.

Scare as Philippine presidential guards wounded in attack by Maoist rebels

Reuters is reporting that four members of the Philippine presidential guard were wounded in a firefight with dozens of Maoist rebels disguised as soldiers at a checkpoint on the southern island of Mindanao, the military said on Wednesday.

Cholera breaks out in IS-Philippines war zone in Marawi

The first cases of cholera have been recorded in emergency shelters for families fleeing the conflict in the southern Philippines city of Marawi.

Almost a quarter of a million people have been forced to leave their homes, as the fight against IS-linked militants enters its second month.

Oh dear! From Philippines, indebted ex-employee behind Manila casino attack

A heavily indebted former employee of the Philippines’ finance department was behind the attack on a casino complex that killed 37 people two days ago, police said Sunday.
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The suspect, Jessie Carlos, a 43-year-old father-of-three, had a gambling problem and was dismissed from the Department of Finance in 2014 for failing to accurately disclose his assets and liabilities, said Director Oscar Albayalde, chief of the Manila police force.

Tragedy in Philippines as dozens dead in Manila casino after gunman sets fire to tables

At least 36 bodies have been found after what appears to be a botched robbery at a casino in the Philippines, according to police.

Just after midnight on Friday local time, a man burst into the Resorts World building, which is near Manila's international airport.