More than 150,000 people have been evacuated across the eastern provinces of the Philippines as Typhoon Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, approaches from the Pacific. Authorities have issued warnings for torrential rains, potentially destructive winds, and storm surges reaching up to three metres (nearly 10 feet).

A 6.9-magnitude aftershock jolted quake-hit southern Philippines, triggering a fresh tsunami alert just hours after an earlier warning was lifted, authorities said.

Philippine bishops have urged Catholics and others to demand accountability and transparency from government authorities for the misuse of public funds.

It’s the textbook investment strategy — save consistently and let time and compound interest do its work. That’s what Carl Edison Balagtas did in 2016 when he started socking half of his monthly salary into the Philippines stock market in hopes of securing his future.

Quezon City has joined UNESCO's Creative Cities of Film Network, becoming one of the first Southeast Asian cities to earn the designation.

“These bats are notoriously elusive, so the tube-nosed bat collection this study examined was cobbled together over many years, expeditions, and memorable experiences–one bat at a time,” added study co-author and Lawrence University biological scientist Jodi Sedlock.

Catherine Vego opened her Filipino restaurant in Neepawa at the start of October, with the southwestern Manitoba town's growing Filipino community making it the right time to start cooking, she says.

Sweden is eyeing a permanent defence attaché in the Philippines to secure trade lanes against a ‘changed China’ in the Indo-Pacific.