Phillipines News

Mayor Aristotle Aguri wants a change in the attitude of government employees. He said that this decision has been taken in view of the complaints being received at the local level. Aristotle Aguri took charge this month in the town of Mulaney in the Quezon province of Luzon Island.

A super typhoon weakened after barrelling through the southern part of the Philippines` main island of Luzon on Sunday, with officials reporting at least four deaths, power supply outages, infrastructure damage and flash floods.

The quake was located 13.3 km west of Burauen in Leyte province, according to the US Geological Survey.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte`s campaign to bring back the death penalty for drug-related crimes has cleared a major hurdle, with supporters backing it in congress but critics denouncing the planned killings as "inhumane".

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday summoned Chinese Ambassador Cheng Yonghua to protest the continued incursions by Beijing in its territorial waters surrounding the disputed Senkaku islands.

China has installed a radar with potential military functions in a disputed area of the East China Sea, Japanese media said Sunday, in the latest flare-up of tensions between the two countries.

Japan, Australia and the US on Tuesday urged China to recognise the ruling by The Hague`s Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in favour of the Philippines over its South China Sea dispute with Beijing.

 Human rights are not a concern in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte`s war on drugs.

Scores of activists were detained in Vietnam`s capital as they gathered to protest against China.

The Philippines will concede nothing to China as it seeks to implement an international tribunal ruling against Beijing`s claims to most of the South China Sea, its top lawyer said Friday.

China issued a formal protest after Australia announced it would continue to exercise its right to freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea.

A state-run Chinese newspaper today included India among the nations which supported China's stand on the strategic South China Sea after Beijing rejected the verdict of a UN-backed tribunal that struck down the Communist giant's claims of "historical rights" in the disputed area.

China's internet watchdog said it banned hundreds of websites and thousands of accounts with illegal content including pornography, gambling and terrorism, the media reported on Friday.

Wading through knee-deep floods, 12-year-old Joana Yambao pushes her infant sister in a black wash basin along the surface of the filthy water in a typhoon-hit Philippine village where residents have little to celebrate this Christmas.