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Heavy rain and strong winds began to hit the eastern Philippines ahead of a giant storm threatening more devastation to areas yet to recover from a super typhoon.

• 06 декабря 2014, 14:59

Thousands of people in the Philippines sought shelter inmakeshift evacuation centresas monster Typhoon Hagupit bore down on the disaster-weary nation.

• 06 декабря 2014, 10:27

Gennady Golovkin has beaten Manny Pacquiao in the Fighter of the Year 2014 rating.

• 05 декабря 2014, 15:36

Survivors of the strongest typhoon ever to hit land wept at mass graves during ceremonies to mark one year since the storm devastated the central Philippines

• 08 ноября 2014, 14:23

Heavy rains brought by the outer bands of Tropical Storm Fung-Wong shut down the Philippine capital Manila.

• 19 сентября 2014, 15:39

Three men arrested over a foiled attempt to bomb the Philippine capital's airport were also planning to attack the Chinese embassy.

• 02 сентября 2014, 14:06

Four people were arrested after a bomb was found in a van parked at Manila's international airport, authorities said Monday.

• 01 сентября 2014, 14:45

Dozens of heavily armed Philippine peacekeepers defied Syrian rebels in a Golan Heights standoff.

• 29 августа 2014, 13:14

The Philippines said it will repatriate over 400 of its troops serving as UN peacekeepers amid security threats and concerns over the Ebola virus.

• 23 августа 2014, 12:52

A chorus of chirps filled the room as one of the Philippines' top crocodile breeders checked on his wards in an overcrowded 'Noah's Ark' .

• 15 августа 2014, 14:01

Philippine President Benigno Aquino has said he may try to change the constitution and serve a second term in office.

• 14 августа 2014, 11:06

An escalation of fighting between the Philippine army and a breakaway Muslim rebel group in the country's south killed 18 people in a single day of violence, the military said.

• 22 июля 2014, 13:15

Philippine President Benigno Aquino presided over the opening on Monday of what is billed as the world's largest indoor stadium, erected by a politically-influential religious sect.

• 21 июля 2014, 14:10

Millions of people in the Philippines endured a second sweltering day without power on Thursday after a ferocious typhoon paralysed the capital and wrecked flimsy rural homes, claiming at least 38 lives.

• 18 июля 2014, 10:37

Typhoon Rammasun shut down the Philippine capital on Wednesday as authorities said the first major storm of the country's brutal rainy season claimed at least four lives and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate.

• 16 июля 2014, 11:41

Sales of flat panel televisions across Southeast Asia rose sharply in May as demand soared in the football-crazy region ahead of the World Cup, a report said.

• 10 июля 2014, 13:42

The Philippines urged its large Muslim minority to reconsider plans to join pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia this year due to a deadly virus outbreak there.

• 03 июля 2014, 13:28

A Chinese tourist and a Filippino worker have been rescued nearly two months after they were abducted from a Malaysian dive resort, Prime Minister Najib Razak said.

• 31 мая 2014, 13:40

A South Korean firm has won an $82.9-million contract to upgrade an airport at one of the Philippines' hottest tourist destinations, authorities said.

• 20 мая 2014, 18:25

Several hundred Filipino and Vietnamese protesters united in a march in the Philippine capital on Friday, demanding that China stop oil drilling in disputed South China Sea waters.

• 17 мая 2014, 00:25