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• 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