Philippine officials say Chinese forces have fired three flares from an artificial island toward a Philippine plane undertaking a routine patrol in the disputed South China Sea

According to the Philippine National Police, 119 rallies were organized by the Catholic Church, civil society movements, and others,

Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ever — and now, the government has admitted that vast sums were embezzled from a program meant to fight the problem.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been scrambling to quell public outrage over the massive corruption blamed for substandard, defective or nonexistent flood control projects.

The Philippines is planning to raise its international bond sales by over 60% next year, as the government seeks to finance an economy stunted by a graft scandal.

Chinese forces fired three flares from an island toward a Philippine plane undertaking a routine patrol Saturday in the disputed South China Sea, but the incident did not cause any problem and the aircraft proceeded with its surveillance mission,

A Philippine court on Thursday convicted a former mayor, who officials say is a Chinese national, of human trafficking charges for helping establish an illegal online gaming complex in a northern province where hundreds of Chinese and other foreign nationals were forced to conduct scams.

The Philippines’ securities regulator plans to relax free float requirements for initial public offerings as it seeks to entice more companies, especially large ones, to list on its faltering stock market.