LONDON — The BBC issued a personal apology Thursday to President Donald Trump over a documentary that his lawyers deemed defamatory, but the British broadcaster insisted there is no legal basis for a lawsuit and no plans to pay...
A lucky bettor in the rural province of Southern Leyte scooped up an 81.8 million peso ($1.4 million) jackpot in Thursday's Lotto 6/42 drawing, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office announced Friday.
The winner matched all six numbers — 18-28-08-30-41-06 —...
A Filipina domestic helper was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of stealing about 520,000 Hong Kong dollars ($66,700) in cash from her employer in a high-end apartment in Hong Kong's upscale Happy Valley neighborhood, police said.
The 59-year-old employer, a woman...
Hong Kong immigration authorities arrested 21 people, including 14 suspected illegal workers and seven employers, in an eight-day operation targeting foreign domestic helpers who allegedly violated their work conditions.
The Immigration Department, known as ImmD, launched "Operation Swordfish" from Nov....
CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 15-year-old boy hailed as a hero for saving nearly 50 neighbors from raging floodwaters during Typhoon Tino has received a full college scholarship, complete with a monthly allowance, in a gesture of community gratitude.
Jayboy...
HONG KONG — Philippine consular and government officials, led by the Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac and ConGen Romulo Victor Israel Jr., visited Filipina inmates at Hong Kong's Lo Wu Correctional Institution on Saturday, 8 Nov....
MANILA — Typhoon Uwan barreled into the Philippines' area of responsibility late Friday, prompting weather officials to raise the lowest-level wind signal over dozens of provinces and islands while forecasting a potential super typhoon strike on northern Luzon by...
Severe Tropical Storm Fung-wong intensified further Friday as it churned over the Philippine Sea northeast of Palau, prompting warnings of rapid strengthening into a super typhoon and potential landfall in northern Philippines early next week, the state weather bureau...
MANILA — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Thursday declared a state of national calamity after Typhoon Tino killed at least 114 people and displaced thousands across the Visayas and Mindanao, while bracing the country for a potential super...
CEBU, Philippines — Typhoon Kalmaegi (Tino in Philippines) killed at least 66 people across the Philippines, the national civil defense office said Wednesday, as residents in flooded urban centers began sifting through mud-caked homes and wrecked businesses.
“It was the...
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