MANILA: A 6.0-magnitude quake struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued.
The quake hit at 9:09pm local time off the island of Samar, at a depth of 60km around 100km north of the city of Guiuan, it said. The epicentre was around 600km east of the capital Manila, according to USGS.
Philippine seismologists measured the qua
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MANILA (Reuters) – Fifteen al Qaeda-linked militants, including three faction leaders, were killed on Thursday in an air strike on a rebel camp in the southern Philippines, officials said, hailing the strike as a victory in the fight against terrorism.
Among those killed in the attack on Sulu island were at least two members of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a Southeast Asian group behi
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By TERESA CEROJANO
MANILA, Philippines
Gunmen in the restive southern Philippines abducted Swiss and Dutch tourists and a Filipino bird photographer Wednesday and took the trio away by boat, authorities said.
They were the latest kidnap victims in an impoverished region infested with al-Qaida-linked militants and criminal gangs that often seek ransom for their foreign hostages.
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The Philippine military said it killed three of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted terrorist leaders in a U.S.-backed airstrike that significantly weakens an al-Qaida-linked network that had used islands in the southern Philippines as a hideout and training base.
The dawn strike targeting a militant camp on a remote island killed at least 15 people, including Malaysian Zulkifli b
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Manila: The Philippine government back-pedalled from its earlier pugnacious and strong stance against China with regard to overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea, and declared a friendly foreign policy with the second largest economy in the world, with the help of the United Nations, following China’s threat to impose economic sanctions on ten members of the Association of Sout
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MASK and movement workshop attended by university-based theater groups
This year’s Tanghal! National University and College Theater Festival will have events across the country, kicking off in the National Capital Region at University of Makati, Feb. 1-4.
Open to the public, the three main performances for NCR are Collective Arts of Students and Thespians’ (University of Makati) adaptation of Aurelio Tolentino
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BEIJING – By allowing more US troops on its soil, the Philippines has sent the wrong signal, experts said, and the decision will cause more tension in the South China Sea.
China has taken note of the report and urges releva
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