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MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Scores of Christian youths in the Philippines chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally Friday calling for the pop diva's shows here to be canceled ...

wage hike would be of help to Metro Manila workers, but a militant party-list representative and labor group believed the salary adjustment is still not ...

Will Jessica be the last person standing on the 'Idol' stage as judge Steven Tyler predicted? (Photo from Michael Becker/FOX) MANILA, Philippines – When Jessica Sanchez sang the ...

posing with a dolphin pierced by a fishing hook; and a group of divers posing while holding a sea turtle underwater. The public outcry over these photos, published online by infuriated netizens, ...

Cagayan Rep. Juan "Jack" Ponce Enrile Jr., son of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, admitted Friday that his father’s performance at the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato ...

The Court of Appeals has upheld a Pasay Court decision finding a tabloid publisher and editor guilty in a libel case filed by salon magnate Ricky Reyes in ...

President Benigno Aquino III told protesters to abort plans to sail Friday to a disputed West Philippine Sea (also called South China Sea) shoal also being claimed by China, the leader of the group ...

MANILA -- A Philippine oil firm said Thursday it would start drilling next year at a potentially massive natural gas field at a reef in the South China Sea also claimed by ...

Abigail Valte MANILA, Philippines--Malacaang asked Friday that Filipinos in the US vote for Jessica Sanchez on the finals of the 11th season of the hit talent competition American Idol. Asked if ...

AFP © <p>File photo shows a Filipino-owned fishing boat set off for a fishing expedition near the Scarborough Shoal from the coastal town of Masinloc, near Manila, on May 10. Philippine ...

magazine's celebrity power list with American singer-actress Jennifer Lopez at No. 1 for the first time, taking over from fellow pop singer Lady Gaga and beating out media mogul Oprah ...

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has ordered the filing of charges against former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office chairman Manoling Morato for violating election laws when he supposedly ...

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is willing to share with other countries in the region the benefits of the natural gas deposits in the disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea. But he ...

Fishing boats, locally known as 'mother boats' which are used to transport fish caught around Scarborough shoal, north of Manila, facing the South China Sea, on May 10, 2012. For years ...

The Philippine property scene may experience the inflow of as much as US$500 million in fresh foreign capital within one year if the real estate investment trust (REIT) system is implemented in the ...

MTSAT ENHANCED IR Satellite Image for 7:32 a.m., 18 May 2012 MANILA, Philippines–Rains will be experienced in parts of the country due to a tail end of a cold front affecting Northern Luzon ...

Japan is planning to provide maritime vessels, including 1,000-tonne patrol ships, to the Philippines to "support the island country in its territorial dispute against China," a Japanese ...

China holds high hopes the Philippines' designation of two special envoys to CHina will help fix bilateral ties strained by a month-old standoff at Panatag (Scarborough) ...

With school due to open in two weeks, education and trade officials have started inspections of public schools and bargain centers to make sure they are ready for the start of the new school year on ...

China on Thursday night reminded the Philippines and other "foreign" fishermen of "punishments" if they violate an ongoing fishing ban in parts of the South China Sea (West ...