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.

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