Since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joined the US global “War on Terrorism”, the Philippines has become the site of an on-going undeclared war against peasant and union activists, progressive ...

GUINSAUGON, Philippines – The village of Guinsaugon disappeared Friday. And so did nearly every man, woman and child who lived in this eastern Philippines farming community of 1,857 people. Only a few ...

Philippine president Gloria Arroyo has enacted a new national conservation policy according to Conservation International (CI). Arroyo signed an Executive Order at a Nov. 8 ceremony that stated “It is ...

The Philippines has asked for hair clippings from salons and chicken feathers to help fight the country’s worst oil spill, according to a report from Reuters. The oil spill occurred August 1 after ...

(New York) - As a Philippine government task force nears its October 7 deadline to solve a number of high-profile killings, it has made little visible progress amid a climate of fear and a lack of ...

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MANILA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The Philippines' budget deficit shrank in 2006 to 62.2 billion pesos ($1.27 billion), the third year in a row that the shortfall was smaller than target, Finance Secretary ...

US-based investment bank Merrill Lynch expects the Philippines's fiscal position to continue improving and wind up with a budget deficit of only P80 billion this year, lower than government's target ...