Foreign secretary Teodoro ‘Teddy Boy’ Locsin Jr is a key figure in Duterte’s ‘pivot’ from the US to China. But as his Twitter feed shows, this top diplomat is not one for diplomacy.

Residents of towns near Taal Volcano in the Philippines want life to return to normal, venting their frustrations against scientists for maintaining the Level 4 alert.

With an eruption imminent, Philippine officials are racing against time to evacuate people living near the volcano, but some residents are staying put.

Lava, lightning and a smell of sulphur amid apocalyptic scenes in the Philippines, but for some an eerie calm has descended.

Sunday’s explosion could develop into a more violent, destructive blast, a frightening prospect given Taal has claimed 6,000 lives before.

Hundreds of Chinese sex workers and brothel managers have been rounded up in raids described as a ‘new development’, as the authorities link rising vice cases to the online gambling industry.

With 67 gambling-related kidnappings since 2017, why is the Duterte administration having trouble cracking down on the situation?

Filipino children ranked last in reading and second to last in maths and science in an international survey.

Long waits, poor organisation and incomplete facilities at the competition have garnered complaints – but politicians are more concerned with a bout of finger-pointing over who is responsible.

Duterte turned a blind eye when Chinese offshore gambling firms rolled into town and flashed the cash. Now he’s struggling to see how the taxman can take a cut.

A national council of churches and women’s political advocacy group were likewise singled out as communist fronts by the country’s armed forces this week, raising fears for their members’ safety.

A brawl that began in front of the Philippine president has spiralled into a battle between three famous sisters on social media. It has transfixed Filipinos – and got the Department of Transport worried for their safety.

Albayalde is the second official appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to have left their post amid scandal in recent months.

Celdran staged a protest in Manila Cathedral after the church opposed a law allowing Filipinos access to family planning education and contraceptives. He went into self-exile after his appeal against a blasphemy conviction was turned down by the Supreme Court in 2018.

The stunt led some Filipinos, tired of enduring crippling traffic which has long plagued Manila, to lash out on social media.

The scandal involves a group of corrupt policemen who seize drugs and go into business for themselves. Despite widespread condemnation and an ongoing senate investigation, none of these policemen has ever even been arrested.

Model and sex coach Esther Margaux Uson is now deputy administrator for media affairs at the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, which caters to millions of Filipinos abroad.

A Filipino Christmas without ham is like an American Thanksgiving without turkey – and amid bans and restrictions, experts say the negative sentiment ‘endangers’ the US$5.75 billion industry.

Philippine president says foreign bandits holding indebted overseas gamblers for ransom will be arrested and killed.

Senators became enraged after the three Corrections officials could not give satisfactory answers to questions about corruption in New Bilibid Prison.

Filipinos have had a centuries-long love affair with pork, but the industry is now under threat despite authorities assuring diners the meat is still safe.

The rebels have never politically controlled any province or even a single city. However, from bases in the forests and mountains across the country, guerillas have waged Asia’s longest-running insurgency.

The Philippine leader is willing to ‘ignore’ a decision on sovereignty claims by an international tribunal at The Hague so he can strike a deal with China to jointly extract resources, but in the face of a public backlash, his spokesman now denies the president plans to ‘set aside’ the UN ruling.

Hooded men threaten staff with guns and throw petrol over machinery and paper stocks before igniting blaze and fleeing on motorcycles.

‘Have you heard of any sane solution short of going to war,’ Duterte says when pressed over meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The wife of convicted rapist Antonio Sanchez revealed she asked some officials, including presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo, to write referral letters to help her husband with a clemency appeal.

Two Philippine lawmakers have filed bills which would allow the president to designate a line of succession in case the country’s top leadership is wiped out, after being influenced by a Netflix political thriller.

Villages have poured toads and mosquitofish in canals to target the larvae of the Aedes mosquitoes. But experts have warned that the predators may themselves become toxic pests.

Sanchez was set to have been freed on August 20, his family said, after serving 24 years of a 360-year sentence for rape and multiple murders.

Philippines warns of ‘unfriendly’ response to incursions by all foreign vessels, but makes exception for Chinese oceanographic research ship.