Philippines

• Philippines grounds company's fleet of passenger ships after at least 18 die in ferry sinking - Philippine officials on Tuesday grounded the entire fleet of passenger ships belonging to a company that owned a ferry that sank in the south and left at least 18 people dead, with more than 300 others rescued. Ten people, mostly crew memb
• Philippine court convicts journalist of terror financing charge in ruling condemned by media groups - A Philippine court Thursday found a Filipina journalist guilty of financing terrorism in a verdict that was condemned by press freedom watchdogs but welcomed by anti-communist insurgency officials. Presiding Judge Georgina Perez of the Reg
• Philippines discovers new gas deposit near disputed South China Sea - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced Monday the discovery of a new natural gas deposit near the disputed South China Sea, which could shield his country from a potential power crisis. The “significant discovery" northwest of
• Filipino rescuers detect 'signs of life' in garbage avalanche that killed 4 and left dozens missing - Rescuers detected signs of life in an avalanche of garbage that killed at least four workers and left more than 30 others missing Thursday in a central Philippines landfill and plan to intensify search efforts, an official said Saturday. T
• Police say 1 person killed, 27 missing in landfill collapse in central Philippine city - A huge mound of garbage collapsed in a waste segregation facility in a central Philippine city, killing one person and leaving at least 27 others missing, police said Friday. Police, firefighters and disaster-mitigation personnel retrieved
• The Unseen Human Workers Behind Self-Driving Cars - The unseen workers who help train self-driving cars to see.
• Australian police find no evidence of 'broader terrorist cell' in Bondi Beach antisemitic shooting - An investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of shooting dead 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence that they were part of a “broader terrorist cell,” police said on Tuesday. Sydney residents S
• The World Wants More Ube. Philippine Farmers Are Struggling to Keep Up. - Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out harvests of the popular purple yam.
• Bondi attack suspects had no visitors and barely left hotel during month-long Philippines stay, employee says - The father and son suspected of carrying out Sunday’s Bondi Beach massacre holed up in a hotel for most of their almost month-long stay in the Philippines in November, rarely left their rooms and dined on fast food, a hotel employee has tol