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The United States is giving the Philippines two used military aircraft in the face of territorial disputes with China.

• 07 сентября 2016, 15:31

Japan will lease military aircraft to the Philippines to counter Beijing's increasing regional influence

• 03 мая 2016, 14:17

Philippine President Benigno Aquino promised to be the "perfect host" to all leaders attending a regional summit, but a long and lonely red carpet welcome walk for China's Xi Jinping betrayed their nations' icy ties.

• 18 ноября 2015, 16:26

In a desperate appeal punctuated with a backflip, stranded Grammy-winning star Chris Brown got down on his knees to beg Philippine authorities to let him go.

• 24 июля 2015, 11:09

Google has quietly removed the Chinese name for a South China Sea shoal bitterly disputed by Beijing and Manila from its maps service, following an outcry from Filipinos.

• 14 июля 2015, 13:30

The WBA (Super), IBO and WBC Interim middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin has gone up to the third place in the Pound-for-Pound (P4P) rating.

• 08 мая 2015, 20:38

Around 24,000 people from the Philippines were being evacuated with Typhoon Maysak a day away from potentially striking the country's northeast coast.

• 04 апреля 2015, 13:41

Devotees in the fervently Catholic Philippines were set to nail themselves to crosses and whip their backs bloody in extreme acts of devotion.

• 03 апреля 2015, 13:46

An emergency was declared in the Micronesian state of Chuuk as Super Typhoon Maysak cut a destructive path across the central Pacific.

• 01 апреля 2015, 15:59

The Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) has named the best fighter of 2014.

• 30 марта 2015, 21:34

As a child she waded in muddy Philippine rice paddies, now teenager Janicel Lubina struts down runways for the country's top designers.

• 12 марта 2015, 13:01

French President Francois Hollande called for a climate change "alliance" with the Philippines that could spur similar co-operation.

• 26 февраля 2015, 16:16

Kazakhstani film director Nariman Torebayev is presenting his 'free interpretation' of Dostoevsky’s White Nights under the title Prikluchenie (Adventure) at the Vesoul international film festival of Asian Cinema’s (FICA) in France.

• 13 февраля 2015, 04:54

A plane carrying top aides of Philippine President overshot a runway in stormy weather, shortly after Pope Francis's plane took off from the same airport.

• 17 января 2015, 14:39

Pope Francis says he has come to the Philippines to help the poor, but the country's biggest businesses and multinationals are also cashing in.

• 16 января 2015, 14:07

Pope Francis will immerse himself in the Catholic Church's passionate and chaotic Asian heartland as he lands in the Philippines for a five-day trip.

• 15 января 2015, 12:05

Pope Francis set off for a six-day trip to Sri Lanka and the Philippines, where his open-air masses are expected to draw millions.

• 13 января 2015, 11:31

Two days of heavy flooding and landslides killed 11 people as tropical storm Jangmi crossed the central Philippines on Tuesday, with water in some areas "neck deep".

• 30 декабря 2014, 13:56

The Philippines's largest broadcaster pulled souvenir T-shirts for an upcoming papal visit from its stores.

• 29 декабря 2014, 14:45

Life is a constant throw of the dice for farmer Nilo Dilao and other residents of the Philippine island of Samar, the ground zero for many of East Asia's deadliest storms.

• 20 декабря 2014, 17:43