LEGAZPI CITY: A combatant of the New People’s Army (NPA) was killed during an encounter with government troopers in Barangay Tagpocol, San Fernando town, Camarines Sur province on Friday.

Three M16 rifles, two M653 rifles, and an M203 grenade launche…

MANILA: The three remaining Filipino seafarers from the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, seized by the Iranian authorities while passing through the Strait of Hormuz in April, have returned to the Philippines, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said…

DUMAGUETE CITY: The Under-16 girls’ football team of the Leyte Association of Organized Sports Football Club (Laos FC) missed the finals but won hearts in the ongoing Norway Cup in Oslo.

Norway team Alta IF dashed the Filipino girls’ finals hope on A…

MANILA: Aira Villegas celebrated one of her most memorable birthdays with a unanimous decision win over Roumaysa Boualam of Algeria in the Paris Olympics women’s boxing 50kg round of 16 early Friday (PH time) at North Paris Arena.

She turned 29 on Au…

MANILA: The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) and the University of the Philippines (UP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the former to establish its office inside the UP Diliman campus.

PCC Chairperson Michael Aguinaldo and …

MANILA: A fire razed a five-story building in a commercial district in Binondo, Manila on Friday morning, killing 11.

Investigators from the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said the fire started at around 7:28 a.m.at the ground floor of the Pingco Bu…

MANILA: Around 1,698 foreign nationals working in illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) firms have so far been deported, the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) said Friday.

‘As far as the PAOCC is concerned, 1,698 na …

Ho Chi Minh City welcomes and stands ready to create favourable conditions for partners and investors from Hong Kong (China) to carry out projects and do business the southern largest economic hub, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Phan Va…