Jason Smith and his wife Maffi were involved in a serious motorcycle accident in Kalibo in the Philippines two nights ago, they both have severe injuries but Jason is in critical condition with kidney failure and on a mechanical ventilator […]
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Manila may get a tube (subway to anyone that is not British) it will be Manila’s first Underground Railway. Japan is hoping to fund and build Metro Manila’s first underground railway to help relieve the congested streets of the Philippines capital Manila. A Philippines […]
New punishment for being drunk in the Philippines The Punishment for being drunk in the Philippines is now being forced to do press-ups. People arrested for being drunk in the Philippines are being made to do press-ups as part of a crackdown on street crime. […]
The long talked about Philippines smoking ban looks like it will be signed in very soon and could even happen today. Smoking will be banned in public places in the Philippines local media has reported. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol said […]
New People’s Army raid Balangkayan police station Around 30 members of the NPA (New People’s Army) raided a police station in Balangkayan, Eastern Samar Monday evening, and got away with several weapons. None of the 5 policemen at the police station were harmed during the raid. The […]
Philippines education Survey In a survey by a remittance firm a lot of Pinoys based in America said they believed their education in the Philippines was their ticket to a successful careers in the US. Out of the 6,000 Filipino respondents to the survey 69% […]
American tests positive for Zika virus After retuning from a trip in the Philippines in January, an American woman has tested positive for the Zika virus when she was tested in the United States. Janette Garin Secretary of the Philippine […]
A Pinoy couple ran an illegal money lending business for nurses in the NHS and health workers from their home in Torquay, a court has been told. Nardo and Theodora Bacquain loaned money to members of the Filipino community living in England. The couple claimed they […]
The Philippines Bureau of Customs has reported that they confiscated gun parts at a port in Cagayan de Oro while investigating possible smuggling from the USA. The Intelligence Group of the Bureau of Customs at the seized barrels of Caspian and Glock, spring, […]
Total trade between the UK and the Philippines rose 30% to £1.8 billion (123 billion peso) last year. While this is good news for both countries, British Ambassador Asif Ahmad seems to think it could have been much higher. Speaking at the Great […]
Tondo Fire Destroys over 100 Homes It is reported that a fire in Tondo Manila has destroyed over 100 homes. The fire started in the early hours on Sunday the 28th of February. Residents have been evacuated to barangay halls in Balot. It is […]
A five-year-old was beaten to death to drive away the evil spirits which the suspects in the murder believed were haunting them. Allegedly the suspects took the boy near a chapel where and hung him upside down, then beat him and strangled […]
Prosecutors in Scotland have launched a bid to extradite a 20-year-old Filipino man over the death of a Scottish teenager who committed suicide after being blackmailed by Filipinos online. Daniel Perry from Dunfermline thought he was talking to an American girl […]
A series of initiatives has been unveiled by the Philippines Department of Tourism to attract more Muslim visitors to the country. The Philippines Department of Tourism has partnered with the the authority on halal travel, the CrescentRating, in the hope to improve its facilities in the Philippines and […]
Philippines Health Minister advised to women to delay pregnancy Philippines Health Minister Janet Garin has urged women to delay pregnancy until more is known about the mosquito-borne Zika virus Zika virus has been linked to thousands of cases of birth […]
11:08:26 AM The police director of Central Luzon handed a reward of one million peso to members of Bulacan PNP for quick conclusion to the investigation into the murder of Judge Wilfredo Nieves. The Judge was killed in an ambush in […]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Officials say the Philippine government has approved the auction of the jewelry collection of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ widow Imelda, which international experts have appraised to be now worth at least 1 billion […]
Michael Barry Tallent, 31, was arrested and detained on Thursday 11th of February for allegedly spitting on two airline employees. The American arrived at the airport late for his Philippine Airlines flight to Los Angeles and got angry when he discovered he was too late board […]
A 66-year-old woman was murdered in Parañaque on Tuesday, she was shot several times inside her vehicle, the murder got off a motorbike, approached the right side of her car and fired shot her, he then went to the driver’s side of the car opened the […]
The sad and pointless murder of Teng Santaromana Gamboa is to close to home and very sad for some of the members of Brits in the Philippines that knew her personally. Teng was introduced to me a few years ago, I […]
Philippines, 400 new islands discovered The Philippines is getting bigger, the 7,100 islands have grown to 7,500 after 400 new islands were discovered. More than 400 unknown islands in the Philippines have been found claim the country’s environment and mapping officials. The Environment Secretary […]
Traffic enforces in the Philippines are known worldwide for their dancing, but it now seems they are making drivers dance with the help of a taser. A video showing a Cavite traffic enforcer using a taser on a motorist in […]
Asif Ahmad the British Ambassador to the Philippines gave a message to the Philippines business community, “Stop just replicating and franchising foreign discoveries and invest in research”. The Ambassador gave the message during the announcement of the recipients of the Newton Agham Science […]
There is now a full-blown HIV crisis in the Philippines, as seen in the growing statistics. Data from the Philippine Department of Health, shows that 22 new cases of HIV were diagnosed per day in 2015. With so many people in the country not being […]
A woman was confined in the southern Philippines for monitoring after she showed symptoms of the Middle East respiratory syndrome-Coronavirus MERS when she arrived from Singapore in early February, a doctor said. The woman, 36, has been confined in an […]
A 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit Quezon province on Friday afternoon The earthquake occurred at 1 p.m. with epicenter traced 7 miles southeast of Lopez in Quezon. Date/Time UTC 2016/02/04 22:41:39.1 Distances to cities 168 km SE of Manila, Philippines / pop: […]
MANILA, Philippines – Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said if elected president, he is willing to share the natural resources of the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) with China if that will settle the maritime dispute between the Asian […]
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – At least seven Philippine marines were wounded Thursday when a roadside bomb hit a military convoy in troubled Sulu province in the Muslim south. Brig. Gen. Alan Arrojado, Joint Task Group Sulu commander, said the Marine […]
It is a different world in some parts of Makati, not just for people but also for pets. If a cat is lucky enough to find a home in Dasmarinas Village, Makati City, it can expect the sort of life cats get […]
Manila, Feb. 3 (CNA) Travelers to the Philippines should be aware of robbers who drug their targets, after a Taiwanese woman recently fell victim, according to Taiwan’s representative office in the Southeast Asian country. The office said Wednesday that it […]