An arbitration court ruled on Tuesday that China has no historic title over the waters of the South China Sea and has breached the Philippines’ sovereign rights with its actions, infuriating Beijing which dismissed the case as a farce. A defiant China, which boycotted the hearings at the Permanent Court[…]
Rodrigo Duterte has been sworn in as the 16th president of the Philippines in front of an audience of 600 guests and millions more watching on television and online, crowing a rise from little-known mayor to leader of a huge nation. His youngest child by his side holding the family[…]
Maverick anti-crime candidate Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte has won the Philippine presidential elections, following the withdrawal of his opponents. Although the official result has not yet been declared, main rival Mar Roxas admitted defeat after polls gave Mr Duterte an unassailable lead. Mr Duterte said he accepted the mandate with “extreme[…]
Polls have closed in the Philippines presidential election with an unofficial, partial tally of votes suggesting a strong lead for populist mayor Rodrigo Duterte. Andy Bautista, head of the polling commission, said voter turnout in Monday’s election was estimated at 80 percent, which he said was a record in the[…]
Close to 55 million voters have started casting their ballots in the Philippines’ presidential election that could, for the first time, propel a politician from the southern island of Mindanao to power. This could signal a turn away from the policies of President Benigno Aquino and the political centre in[…]
The Philippines renewed calls for thousands of its nationals to leave Libya on Thursday after a Filipina nurse was abducted and gang-raped, following the beheading of a Filipino construction worker. The foreign department said all 13,000 Filipinos there were to be repatriated as clashes between rival militias threaten to tear[…]
Millions of Filipinos have endured a second day without power after typhoon Rammasun paralysed the capital Manila, and killed 38 people as it swept across the country. Rammasun was heading towards China on Thursday after cutting a path through the Philippines’ central and southern islands, shutting down the capital and[…]
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