The Philippine government on Tuesday extended a lockdown imposed on the country’s most populous island for two more weeks, in a bid to delay a peak in coronavirus infections. The lockdown on the island of Luzon, where the capital Manila is located, was supposed to be effective until April 14 but has been extended until April 30. […]
Residents of a slum area in the Philippine capital on Wednesday staged a protest to demand relief goods amid a month-long coronavirus lock down that has left many of them without work. The protest forced the police to break the picket up and arrest 20 of the protesters. The residents of the district of San […]
At least three doctors have died in the fight against the coronavirus disease in the Philippines, where thousands of medical workers are treating Covid-19 patients despite the lack of protective gear, officials said Monday. Several other doctors were reported to be in critical condition, while hundreds of health care workers were in quarantine after being […]
Thousands of people rushed to the Philippines’ main international airport on Thursday in a bid to get out of the country amid a month-long lockdown on the main island designed to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Foreigners and Filipinos crowded Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila to try to get on a flight […]
A disgruntled former security guard on Monday took an undetermined number of hostages inside a shopping mall in the Philippines, police and local officials said. Hundreds of shoppers and employees were evacuated from the V Mall in the city of Manila’s Greenhills shopping district after gunfire was heard from the second floor, said police spokesman […]
The Philippines has lifted a travel ban that was imposed on visitors from Taiwan in a bid to control the spread of the coronavirus, a government official said on Friday. The official said that government would also evaluate other restrictions including those on Macau. READ ALSO: COVID-19: Indonesian city bans sales of bats, snakes The […]
A couple in the Philippines went ahead with their wedding Sunday despite the eruption of a volcano spewing ash into the sky behind them. Chino and Kat Vaflor were tying the knot at a venue 10 miles from the Taal Volcano when wedding photographer Randolf Evan captured dramatic shots of the couple with the ash plume seemingly […]
Iranian beauty queen detained for almost two weeks at an airport in the Philippines on Tuesday pleaded for help, saying she fears for her life. Bahareh Zare Bahari, was held after arriving in Manila from Dubai on Oct. 17 based on a request for her arrest by Interpol, the Bureau of Immigration said. READ ALSO: […]
Trainer Freddie Roach said Wednesday he hopes Manny Pacquiao can set up a rematch with Floyd Mayweather after the Filipino legend takes care of business against Keith Thurman in Las Vegas this month. Roach told reporters he was still bothered by Pacquiao’s defeat to Mayweather in their 2015 clash, which was hyped as the “Fight […]
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s slurs against U.N. human rights activists suggest he needs to see a psychiatrist, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al-Hussein told a news conference on Friday. “These attacks cannot go unanswered, the UN Human Rights Council must take a position,” Àl-Hussein said, after Duterte’s government sought to get an investigator, […]
Five children drowned in a river in the northern Philippines during a family outing, police said on Wednesday. The victims, aged 11 to 14, were on a picnic near the river in Bugallon town in Pangasinan province, 169km north of Manila, when the accident happened. The parents did not know how to swim so when […]