HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – North Korea on Friday threatened the United States and South Korea with a "physical response" to planned weekend naval exercises as tensions with the communist nation rose in the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on the North. In Vietnam for a Southeast Asian regional security forum, [...]

BEIJING (AP) – The first details emerged Friday on the cause of China’s largest reported oil spill, while environmentalists urged the government to do more to warn local residents of potential danger, saying children are playing still off nearby beaches. Chinese authorities gave no update Friday on the size of the oil spill, which had [...]

Raj, 22, received a 3.10 rating in the survey, to lead the online popularity poll of 83 candidates for this year’s beauty contest. Miss Philippines Maria Venus Raj led a worldwide online popularity survey sponsored by the  Miss Universe organization. Continue Reading here…

MANILA, July 23 (PNA) — Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said on Friday she will recommend to President Benigno Simeon Aquino III a total revamp in the composition of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), but not the agency’s abolition. “We need a new approach… conscious of the timeline… we need new faces… a [...]

In his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, President Aquino said he would shock his listeners with a litany of his predecessor’s alleged misdeeds and how they had shrunk the national budget from P1.54 trillion to just over P100 billion. Continue Reading here…

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration employees’ association yesterday urged the Aquino administration to increase the salaries of Pagasa personnel, particularly weather forecasters, to prevent them from leaving the country for better paying jobs abroad. Continue Reading here…

Former Energy secretary Angelo Reyes will not get to sit as sectoral representative after all despite a Commission on Elections (Comelec) ruling favoring his nomination. Continue Reading here…

The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) plans to take over management of the Angat Dam from the National Power Corp. (Napocor) so that it can have firmer control over the water supply for Metro Manila. Continue Reading here…