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Call center operators in the Philippines who serve mostly U.S. clients on Wednesday shrugged off President Barack Obama's initiative to bring outsourced jobs back home.
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Officials at the state-run Cultural Center of the Philippines shut an art exhibit on Tuesday after it provoked heated debate as well as threats and hate mail for combining Christian symbols with phallic objects.
A visiting Libyan official urged Filipino workers Monday to return to Libya, saying its capital was peaceful and violence was confined to rebel-controlled areas.
Philippine Roman Catholic bishops embroiled in a scandal involving allegedly inappropriate donations on Wednesday returned vehicles they received as gifts from the government's charity funds.
The Filipino mother of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who came out as an illegal immigrant in the U.S. told The Associated Press that she tried to persuade him not to risk deportation and losing his success by revealing his status
A Filipino-American activist who accused the Philippine military of abducting and interrogating her for six days is criticizing an official investigation that did not support her claims.
About 7,500 victims of human rights abuses during late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos' regime will receive compensation for their suffering starting next week, 25 years after a peaceful revolt forced Marcos into exile in Hawaii, their lawyers said Thursday.
A year after 57 people were killed in the Philippines' worst political massacre, journalist Reynaldo Momay's daughter still has no body to prove her father was the 58th victim. Her evidence is both scant and horrifying: his denture dug from a mass grave.
A policeman who witnessed an election-related massacre of 57 people last year told a court Wednesday a former town mayor — the main suspect in the deaths — gunned down 40 victims as they pleaded for their lives.
Booming populations, rapid urbanization and competing demands for food and energy will drain Asia's dwindling freshwater supplies unless the region better manages its resources, experts said Tuesday.
President Barack Obama and Southeast Asian leaders will call for the peaceful settlement of South China Sea territorial disputes and urge claimants not to resort to force, according to a draft communique.
It is lunchtime, but the cooking pots are empty outside Nurain Dimalao's shack. Her 7-year-old son plays amid the flies in garbage-strewn sand. She worries where his next meal will come from.
The Philippine justice secretary said Thursday she will recommend criminal and administrative charges against about 10 officials, police officers and journalists over the deaths of eight Hong Kong tourists last month in a botched hostage rescue that outraged China.
It's lunchtime, but the cooking pots are empty outside Nurain Dimalao's shack. Her 7-year-old son plays amid the flies in garbage-strewn sand. She worries where his next meal will come from.
A U.S.-based rights group urged the Philippines on Monday to reform a tough anti-abortion law that it says has spawned widespread underground procedures that kill about 1,000 women each year in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.
The world's biggest rice importer, the Philippines, is now "swimming" in the staple grain because of massive imports by the previous government that drove world prices to record highs and possibly enriched corrupt officials.
Gunmen killed a local leader of a left-wing party in the Philippines, one week after President Benigno Aquino III took office vowing to put an end to political assassinations.
The sound of Broadway medleys and love songs echoed inside the walls of the Philippines' maximum security penitentiary Tuesday when convicts, many of them serving life sentences for murder and other major crimes, gave their first public concert.
Poorer countries that have borne the brunt of climate change's effects will save, not lose, money by putting in place ways to rescue the environment, Al Gore said Tuesday.
Nearly a quarter-century after Imelda Marcos and her dictator husband fled the Philippines in disgrace — leaving a debt-ridden country but a lavish collection of shoes — the 80-year-old former first lady and two of their children are poised to revive the family's political fortunes.
Returning to the Manila highway where 1986 "people power" protests led by his mother ousted a dictator and swept her to power, Benigno Aquino III asked a huge, yellow-clad crowd to seize the moment and help him win next week's presidential election.
On Valentine's Day, Philippine government health workers hit the streets of Manila to hand out roses and condoms to passers-by.
A Philippine wildlife officer is suspected of stealing more than 1,500 pounds (700 kilograms) of smuggled elephant tusks seized last year, an embarrassing setback for the country's anti-poaching efforts, an official said Wednesday.
A powerful clan chief and his son plotted a massacre in the southern Philippines that killed 57 rivals and journalists, ordering local officials to hire gunmen and recruiting militiamen for the slayings, a court heard Wednesday.
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