In the start of 2024 on the 1st day of the new year, Japan was hit by a massive 7.6 earthquake and more than 100 people died and several missing after the incident. After 8 Days on January 9, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred off the southern coast of...

Two police officers were killed and four others injured when an armed group ambushed a police car in the southern Philippines, authorities said on Thursday.Brigadier General Allan Nobleza, the regional police chief of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in...

Seven people, including a two-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, died when a fire swept a residential community in Rizal province in the Philippines, police said on Sunday. The fire broke out before 10 p.m. local time on Saturday in Taytay town and spread...

At least 10 people were killed and 230 others rescued after the ferry they were travelling in caught fire in the Philippines, authorities said on Thursday. Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Commodore Marco Antonio Gine said the M/V Lady Mary Joy 3, a passenger...

Six people, including a local official, were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a van in Nueva Vizcaya province in the Philippines on Sunday morning, police said.The police said the attack occurred around 8.45 a.m. local time along a highway...

At least six people have died and 19 others are missing due to flooding triggered by heavy rain across the Philippines over the weekend, the government said on Monday. In a report, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said...

Seven people were killed after a fire broke out at a two-level house in the Philippine capital on Sunday morning. Firefighter Eugene Briones said the fire broke out around 9 a.m. local time in Muntinlupa City and was extinguished 23 minutes later, Xinhua News...

At least 31 people died on Friday and several others were reported missing after a strong overnight downpour flooded a number of towns in the Philippines' Maguindanao province, an official said.The disaster management official said 16 people were killed...

Super typhoon Noru slammed Luzon island in the Philippines with heavy rainfall and winds over the weekend, leaving eight people dead and three others missing, a government agency said on Tuesday.The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council confirmed...

The Philippines' Department of Health said on Tuesday that deaths from dengue fever have climbed to 400 this year as cases rose by 143 per cent from the same period last year.The Department has tallied 118,785 cases from January 1 to August 13, reports Xinhua...

Eight people were killed while six others injured when their van lost control and collided with an oncoming 10-wheeler truck along a highway in General Santos City in the southern Philippines, the police said.Police said the van veered to the opposite lane...

The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) on Friday confirmed the detection of the first monkeypox case in the country.The DOH's officer-in-charge Undersecretary Beverly Lorraine Ho said the virus was detected in a 31-year-old Filipino who arrived in the...

A 7-magnitude earthquake that rattled the main Luzon island in the Philippines on Wednesday morning killed at least four people and injured some 60 others, Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos said.In a report to Philippine President Ferdinand...

The Philippines has detected the Covid-19 Omicron sub-variant BA.4 in a Filipino citizen who flew in from the Middle East earlier this month, the Department of Health (DOH) said.The DOH said the asymptomatic patient, who arrived in the country on May 4,...

Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu settled for the bronze medal after losing to reigning World champion Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in the 2022 Badminton Asia Championships women's singles semi-final, here on Saturday.The 26-year old Sindhu, a former world champion,...

Ace Indian shuttler P.V Sindhu assured herself of at least a bronze medal at the 2022 Badminton Asia Championships after reaching the semi-finals with a win over China's He Bing Jiao in the women's singles quarter-finals, here on Friday.Sindhu, a former...

The death toll from the powerful typhoon Rai that lashed the Philippines last week has increased to 208, a top police official confirmed on Monday, adding that 52 people were still unaccounted for.However, Philippine National Police spokesperson Colonel...

Two police officers have been killed and four others wounded in a clash with the rebels in the central Philippines, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Sunday.The PNP said the police officers were hit by an improvised explosive device during a firefight...

A Philippine Air Force (PAF) plane with 92 people aboard crashed on Sunday while attempting to land on Jolo island in Sulu province, killing 17 persons andinjuring 40 others.Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said in a statement that among the 92 personnel...

The death toll due to typhoon Goni, this year's strongest storm to hit Philippines this year, has increased to 16 on Monday, a day after it made landfall in the the country's main Luzon island, according to the disaster management agency.The Office of Civil...