This year's winning Ties That Bind essay will be read by its author at this year's 110th Philippine Independence Day flag raising celebration that is scheduled in June.
Cotabato City, Philippines - Malaysian peacekeepers on Saturday began pulling out of the Philippines' troubled southern region of Mindanao, with high hopes that hostilities would not break out between the military and Muslim separatist rebels.
MANILA, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Dengue disease has killed more than 100 people so far this year in the Philippines and the cases have increased by more than a third compared with the same period last year, reported local television network GMA News on
MANILA: Lower electronics shipments pushed Philippine merchandise exports 6.8 percent down from a year earlier to 4.18 billion dollars in March after enjoying 10.5 percent growth in February, the government said Friday.
MANILA: Already struggling to make ends meet, millions of ordinary Filipinos living on the minimum wage are seeking a pay increase just to keep up with the rising cost of food.
Consular officials were last night investigating the apparent disappearance of a British businessman in the Philippines. The man, named locally as 35-year-old David James Rowe, was last seen at a hotel in the southern city of Zamboanga on Thursday.
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