MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III today inaugurated the Php772.9-million (USD17.35 million) bridge in Barangay Lullutan, Ilagan…
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SINGAPORE – Singapore authorities filed sedition charges against a Filipino nurse working in Singapore for his Facebook post that called…
SINGAPORE – A Filipino nurse working in Singapore faces three years imprisonment or a fine of SGD5,000, or both, if…
MALAYSIA – The arrest of a Swedish man, who was jailed in Thailand for major credit card fraud, again resurrects…
MALAYSIA – It took more than 15 hours for Malaysian lawmakers to decide to pass the controversial Prevention of Terrorism…
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has denied reports that the Philippine government will surrender its Sabah claims…
SINGAPORE – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has officially launched the country’s new Police Operations Command Center (POCC), which…
INDONESIA – Despite Australia’s appeal for clemency for the planned executions of two Australian drug smugglers, who are members of…
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – The Malaysian police detained 17 suspected militants who were allegedly planning terror activities in the Malaysian…
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Philippine government said it supports a United Nations (UN) initiative raising awareness on disasters to make…
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Philippine government has successfully evacuated 99 Filipino nationals from the war-torn Yemen, the official Philippine gazette…
PHILIPPINES – A gold processing plant owner, his son and their family driver were killed in what police described as…
MALAYSIA – In what others considered as a miracle, a four-year-old girl survived a potentially deadly seven-floor fall from an…
PHILIPPINES – Three minors died in separate incidents of drowning in the rivers of Sigay and Tagudin Ilocos Sur on…
AUSTRALIA – A two-car crash on Wyee Road, Doyalson on the NSW Central Coast killed an eight-year-old girl and critically…
SINGAPORE – Authorities here said the two foreign workers who died in a fire in a private residential unit along…
MALAYSIA – The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah is in stable health and not ill as rumored…
MALAYSIA – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad urged authorities to allow Sirul Azhar Umar to reveal the mastermind in…
MALAYSIA – At least 500 people were rendered homeless after fire destroyed 50 wooden houses at Kampung Bangau-Bangau water settlement…
What started as a child’s play turned tragic when a six-year-old died after falling from the second floor of a…