4 September 2010, 2:13 am
Manila - The Philippines Health Department said Saturday that it had stepped up monitoring of areas affected by increasing cases of dengue fever, which has killed 465 people this year.... Read More »
4 September 2010, 2:07 am
MANILA - The Philippines is considering paying compensation to families of eight Hong Kong tourists who were killed when their bus was hijacked by a sacked policeman, an official said Friday.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 7:27 pm
Inbound tourism to the Philippines has suffered and will suffer more after the tragic hostage-taking late last month, a top Filipino tourism official said here Friday.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 6:12 pm
MANILA - The Philippines is preparing a menu of at least 10 projects worth up to 200 billion pesos (S$6.07 billion) under a private-public partnership (PPP) arrangement that it hopes to market to investors for development next year, the budget secretary said on Friday.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 11:28 am
The Philippines’ construction industry is headed for prosperous times, according to both analysts and the government. The residential and infrastructure segments are set to expand due to high demand, though questions remain as to where the funding for some of these projects will come from.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 5:58 am
(RTTNews) - Philippines President Benigno Aquino has owned moral responsibility for the country's bungled hostage rescue operation that resulted in the death of eight Chinese tourists last month.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 2:57 am
(RTTNews) - Authorities in the Philippines have begun a three-day investigation into a botched hostage rescue operation in which eight Hong Kong tourists on a bus were killed in the capital Manila.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 6:53 pm
The Philippines is no longer in a position to attain the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing poverty by 2015, social welfare secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman said. The MDG serves as a cont ........ Read More »
2 September 2010, 2:53 am
The Philippines said Thursday it would fail to meet its UN development goal on halving poverty levels by 2015 after even more people were added to the ranks of the poor in recent years.... Read More »
1 September 2010, 8:01 am
MANILA, Philippines, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Revelers in the Philippines have begun the world's longest Christmas season with the arrival of holiday decorations and other festive displays. Philippines - Christmas - Christmas and holiday season - Asia - Holidays... Read More »