Washington is challenging Communist China with an agreement to provide $500 million in aid for the Philippines to build up its feeble armed forces to the point at which they can stand up to Chinese ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday assured the Philippines of continued US “ironclad” support amid rising tensions with China in the disputed South China Sea. Blinken, who was in Manila ...

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In the lead up to the APEC summit in Manila, US President Obama deliberately stoked tensions over the already explosive territorial dispute in the South China Sea, committing over a quarter of a ...

MANILA, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The United States and the Philippines begin formal negotiations this week to increase rotational presence of U.S. forces in the former U.S. colony, deploying aircraft, ships ...

Oysters and Manila clams harvested in Washington have been recalled across seven states due to an outbreak of norovirus. The recalled seafood was harvested between November 15 and December 11 this ...

What a difference a decade makes. As Beijing’s bullying of its neighbors escalates, Washington on Monday declared it would defend the Philippines militarily. Yet, because America in the past has been ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Washington and Manila have expanded talks on military cooperation to include possible U.S. funding to build facilities and the storage of U.S. humanitarian relief supplies, the ...

Using a pre-/post-test survey approach, support for a 0.05 BAC limit increased from 54% to 71% of survey respondents, and ...

Washington hardly needs another crisis right now. But the Philippines may be heading for a train wreck in which we all get badly hurt. Greg Sheridan, foreign editor of the Australian, is a visiting ...