MANILA: An official of the Department of Education defended the agency’s decision to approve tuition increase for 260 private elementary and high schools...
MANILA: An official of the Department of Education defended the agency’s decision to approve tuition increase for 260 private elementary and high schools...
MANILA: With job prospects in Taiwan dimming for Filipinos, a group of recruitment agencies is appealing to Manila and Taipei for sobriety, saying...
LEGAZPI CITY : Undeterred by a broken leg, Russian tourist Mark Yuchyugaev vowed to climb Mt Mayon again, this time with a guide...
MANILA: A government soldier was killed and three others were wounded in an encounter with the leftist rebel group of New People’s Army...
BLANQUEFORT, France: Ford pledged to maintain 1,000 jobs for five years at a factory in southwestern French under an agreement signed Friday on...
GENEVA: The United States, Turkey and Qatar called Friday for an urgent debate on Syria at the UN's top human rights body next...
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof poses during a photocall for the film "Dast-Neveshtehaa Nemisoosand" (Manuscripts Don't Burn) presented in the Un Certain Regard section...
BEIRUT: Lebanon's President Michel Sleiman cautioned the Shiite group Hezbollah on Friday over its militia fighting alongside regime troops in neighbouring Syria. "The...
GENEVA: Saudi Arabia said Friday it would send samples taken from animals possibly infected with a deadly SARS-like virus to the United States...
TEL AVIV: US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed Iran on Friday for its barring of would-be candidates for a presidential election next...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government Friday repeated its view that US drone strikes in its territory were illegal, after President Barack Obama laid out...
HONG KONG: The H7N9 bird flu virus may be capable of spreading from human to human and can be transmitted not only through...
LONDON: A British Airways plane made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow airport on Friday after a "technical fault", forcing officials to close...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Gunmen on Friday opened fire on a convoy of NATO containers in a northwestern Pakistani town near the Afghan border, killing...
BANGKOK: Four paramilitary rangers were killed and two others wounded in an ambush when suspected rebels detonated a bomb buried in a road...
MUMBAI: Shareholders in India's Jet Airways approved an agreed sale of a 24 percent stake in the airline to Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways,...
TOKYO: Tokyo shares closed 0.89 percent higher Friday in a rollercoaster session that came a day after the Nikkei 225 index suffered its...
SRINAGAR, India: Armed militants killed three soldiers on Friday in an ambush outside Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir, an army spokesman...
