PH fishermen displaced amid toxic oil spill
A crab covered in oil creeps across the sand as Philippine fishermen wearing white protective suits, rubber gloves, and respirator masks scrape toxic sludge from...
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Fear, defiance for kin of drug war dead
Six years after four policemen burst into her Manila slum shack and shot dead her husband and teenage son, Mary Ann Bonifacio fears for her...
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Marawi walls tell of long, urban war
MARAWI—At first glance, the endless rows of devastated buildings could be the aftermath of a great earthquake. But the punctured, bullet-riddled walls tell the true...
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Typhoon survivors get bleak Christmas
CALUMPIT, BULACAN—Wading through knee-deep floods, 12-year-old Joana Yambao pushes her infant sister in a black wash basin along the surface of the filthy water in...
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Iloilo City – Nestled in the heart of the Visayas region, the MILO® Marathon Iloilo on September...
Read moreThe Department of Foreign Affairs is coordinating with the government of Canada after former Philippine National Police chief Gen. Rodolfo...
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HANGZHOU – The Philippine men’s 3x3 team moved on the verge of completing a sweep of its Pool A assignment...
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The Philippine Women's National Football Team HANGZHOU – The Philippine women’s football team is all geared up against Myanmar in...
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HANGZHOU, CHINA—Sanda fighter Arnel Mandal assured Team Philippines its first silver medal in the 19th Asian Games by overpowering Kyrgyzstan's...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.