Amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan, residents of Batanes, the Philippines’ northernmost province and closest ...

Cecilia Oebanda-Pacis founded Voice of the Free in 1991 to help children kidnapped and forced into sex work. Her work is more ...

The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) expects 14 more economic zones to be proclaimed within the year. “We’re awaiting 14 more proclamations to be happening hopefully within the year,” PEZA ...

Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has signed into law the Republic Act (RA) 12312, known as the “Anti-POGO Act of 2025,” formally banning and declaring illegal all Philippine Offshore ...

NEW YORK -- Rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison after a jury found him guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in July. He ...

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has signed Republic Act (RA) 12312, institutionalizing the ban on Philippine offshore ...

Monroe County History Center's exhibit follows one woman who immigrated to the U.S. to build a life in Indiana during ...

The Philippines has unveiled a new jail that may soon house powerful legislators and officials implicated in a massive ...

Derrick Dukes says that low-paid prison labor is slavery (“Minnesota’s prison labor amounts to modern-day slavery,” Strib Voices, Oct. 17). He is wrong. There is a difference between a slave and a ...

It was over four centuries ago to the day Saturday that Filipinos set foot on the North American continent for the first time. Now, Filipino Americans are working to sustain a cultural footprint.

President Donald Trump said Friday evening he has signed a commutation releasing scandal-plagued former congressman George Santos from prison "immediately." Santos, 37, was less than three months into ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review unprosecuted homicides and undetermined deaths in its prisons since 2015. A collaborative news investigation found at least 43 homicides in state ...