Antonio Sanchez, now 70, is in prison for the 1993 rape and killing of university student Eileen Sarmenta while he led the town of Calauan.

Manila warned that non-compliance of the new rule, aimed at China, could result in an ‘unfriendly’ response by the country’s armed forces.

President Rodrigo Duterte’s former police chief Ronald dela Rosa says communist groups are out to brainwash the nation’s children.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been criticised for comments that have been interpreted as his endorsement of police accepting bribes.

Business process outsourcing, a little known backbone of the country’s prosperity, is under threat from Chinese online gambling, efforts to spread the wealth outside big cities, and artificial intelligence.

The Philippines president has been unpredictable in previous year’s speeches. This year, he has said he will ‘educate’ Filipinos about his verbal agreement with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the disputed South China Sea.

The Philippine leader’s love for making provocative remarks has resulted in copycat behaviour by his officials. But Duterte’s crassness has been welcomed by some people, who admire him for speaking his mind.

The Philippine president claimed last month he could not go back on a verbal deal he made with the Chinese leader in 2016. But his comments appear to have been contradicted by his own foreign secretary, Teodoro Locsin Jnr

he former foreign secretary and another Philippine official in March sued President Xi Jinping and other Chinese officials for ‘atrocious actions’ in the South China Sea and Philippine territory.

Former foreign secretary Albert del Rosario, who was turned away from Hong Kong last week, called the move by the foreign ministry a ‘distraction’.

It took three days for news of the collision between a Philippine fishing boat and Chinese coastguard vessel to reach the public. But when it did, anger grew rapidly.

Mocha Uson has a varied résumé: she’s a dancer, model, sex coach and a former assistant secretary of the presidential communications office. But this week, the controversial Duterte ally failed to add ‘congresswoman’ to the list

Disgraced former president Joseph Estrada, 82, lost his bid for a third term as Manila mayor – a defeat that looked set to be shared by the rest of his family.

With 94 per cent of ballots counted early on Tuesday, Duterte allies were on track to take nine of 12 open seats in the upper house.

Duterte is not on the ballot. Nevertheless, the vote looms as a referendum on his programme three years after he was elected president.

Duterte seems bent on realising the dream of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and renaming the Philippines as ‘Maharlika’. But people can’t decide whether the word means ‘peace’, ‘noble’, or ‘large male organ’.

It may have misfired, but an action movie featuring Robin Padilla as Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa – the Philippine police chief and key player in Duterte’s drug war – was following a popular script: disguise an election ad as entertainment

From extrajudicial killings to kidnappings, rape and extortion, the abuses perpetrated by the PHP in the name of the drugs war grows ever longer.

Supporters of the Philippine president make a virtue of how many people he has fired from his administration, claiming it reflects a no-nonsense approach. Critics say the nonsense is that he hired them in the first place

What do shady operatives, whistle-blowers, X-ray scanners, and a US$205 million drug haul have in common? They’re part of the deceit and debacles at the Bureau of Customs that turned Duterte’s deadly war on drugs into a farce.

In the ‘world capital’ of political dynasties, ruling families that have held power for decades trade positions like musical chairs. And when sibling or clan rivalries threaten this incestuous grip on power, things can turn deadly.

The Chinese embassy in Manila called for a thorough investigation of an alleged bomb plot, protesting at the Philippine government's "soft attitude" towards a potential threat to Chinese citizens.

With tension running high between the Philippines and China because of their maritime dispute, one wrong move could see Beijing grabbing all the disputed islands, say regional experts.

Four days after the strongest storm in history ravaged the central Philippines, CNN asked President Benigno Aquino how he felt about the idea that his presidency would be defined by the way it handled the disaster.

Manila is no stranger to powerful typhoons, but a storm like Haiyan could bring the Philippine capital to its knees.