PANGASINAN: A high school senior in the Philippines is drawing attention for his unusual name, which includes 40 first names and a surname. The latest senior to enroll at Urdaneta City National High School in Pangasinan is a 15-year-old student named Ratziel Timshel Ismail Zerubbabel Zabud Zimry ...

MANILAA coin toss has decided the lucky winner of mayor for a small Philippine town, after rival candidates were tied at the end the vote count, en election official said Thursday.The dramatic conclusion to the contest for San Teodoro, a farming town of about 16,000 people in the central ...

MANILA : Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday secured big wins in mid-term elections seen as vital to his ambitious reform agenda, but the success of famous, graft-tainted rivals raised alarm.Aquino’s ruling Liberal Party and its allies were set to gain control of both houses of ...

MANILA: Four foreign tourists and their Filipino tour guide were crushed to death when one of thePhilippines’ most active volcanoes spewed a giant ash cloud and a hail of rocks on Tuesday, authorities said. Twenty-seven people, including at least nine foreigners, were climbing ...

ISLAMABAD : Great potential exists for expansion in trade and economic relations between Pakistan and the Philippine and the two countries could be successfully tapped through increased contacts between the business sectors. These remarks were made by Domingo Lucenario, Ambassador of Philippine in ...

AFPMANILA A top Philippine newspaper Saturday was taken in by a spoof cover of Time magazine depicting President Benigno Aquino with his mouth agape, running the picture on its front page.“We stand corrected. It was an honest mistake,” said a short statement issued by the ...

CAPAS, Philippines  - US and Filipino marines staged armoured assault manoeuvres on Friday as part of annual military exercises the Philippines has deemed vital in building its capacity to defend itself.This year’s edition is taking part amid a tense territorial dispute between the ...

MANILA (AFP) - Thousands of US and Filipino troops began annual military exercises on Friday that the Philippines said were vital to building its defence capabilities to face the rising threat of China.Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario used the launch of the 12-day Balikatan ...

MANILA  - Philippine police said Monday they rescued a kidnapped Indian businessman being held for ransom but not before his captors had cut off one of his fingers and sent it to his wife.Four kidnappers were killed when police rescued the man from a hideout in Santa Maria town, 37 kilometres ...

MANILA (AFP) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino insisted on Wednesday that civilians had the right to carry guns for self-defence, after a series of deadly shootings prompted calls for a total firearms ban. “‘Total gun ban’ would be a nice headline, but a knee-jerk reaction. ...

NEW BATAAN - Hundreds of thousands of survivors of a deadly typhoon crammed into packed shelters Friday, braving the stench of corpses as the government vowed action to prevent storm disasters.Typhoon Bopha whipped the south on Tuesday, leaving at least 540 people dead and hundreds more missing in ...

MANILA (AFP) - Milan, Paris, London, New York and... Manila. It’s hardly the centre of the fashion world but more than 2,000 models have taken to the catwalk in a Philippine shopping mall to claim a new world record. A total of 2,255 men, women and children, from strutting seasoned ...

MANILA - The Philippine government and the country's biggest Muslim rebel group announced Sunday they had agreed a deal to end a decades-long separatist insurgency that has killed more than 150,000 people.The agreement would see the establishment of a new semi-autonomous Muslim area in the ...

MANILA  - Philippine forces clashed with Muslim extremists on a southern island Thursday, leaving seven soldiers and four militants dead, the military said.Elite rangers battled members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group on the troubled southern island of Basilan, with three soldiers and ...

MANILA (AFP) - Lady Gaga is set to rock the Philippines later Monday amid planned street protests and with censors in the house on orders to report any hint of blasphemy, devil worship, nudity or lewd conduct. Ignoring the outrage of conservative Christians, up to 40,000 fans in the ...

MANILA  - Singaporean veteran Mardan Mamat coasted to a five-stroke victory in the fourth round of the $300,000 ICTSI Philippine Open on Sunday, putting an end to a six-year winless run.He picked up his third Asian Tour win with a closing one-under-par 71 at the Wack Wack Golf Club’s ...

MANILA  - A senior aide to Philippine President Benigno Aquino was reprimanded but allowed to keep his job after being photographed buying counterfeit movie discs, a government spokeswoman said Saturday.The case of Ronald Llamas, Aquino’s political adviser, has highlighted perceived ...

At least 25 people were killed and about 100 others were missing in the southern Philippines on Thursday after a landslide struck a community of gold prospectors, officials said.The landslip hit a remote mountain community of about 100 families near Pantukan town on Mindanao island at dawn, civil ...

MANILA (AFP) - Berry Henson of the United States held off a plucky late charge from local hope Jay Bayron to win his first Asian Tour title at the gruelling $300,000 ICTSI Philippine Open on Sunday. The Asian Tour rookie made a pivotal up-and-down for par on the last hole to close with one-over-par ...

LEGASPI, Philippines (AFP) - The Philippines ordered the evacuation of 9,000 families after one of its most active volcanoes showed increased activity on Monday, shooting plumes of ash into the air. Mayon volcano had five ash explosions with incandescent materials going down three kilometres from ...

MANILA (Reuter-s) - Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, whose ouster of one of the 20th centurys most corrupt dictators made her a global icon of democracy, died on Saturday after a 16-month battle against colon cancer. She was 76. Her family announced she died in the early hours of Saturday, ...

MANILA (AFP) - Philippine merchandise exports fell 11.9 percent in November from a year earlier as shipments to major markets were hit hard by the global financial crisis, the government said Tuesday. November's exports of 3.49 billion dollars were also down 12 percent from October, according to ...