MANILA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The Philippine foreign ministry said on Monday it had made "firm representations" to China's embassy and its ambassador in Manila over what it described as an "escalation of public exchanges" between them and Philippine officials over disputes in the South China Sea.

Rodrigo Duterte’s defence team claims the 80-year-old former leader could not stand trial due to cognitive decline.

Japan and the Philippines have signed a defense pact that will allow the tax-free provision of ammunition, fuel, food and other necessities when their forces stage joint training to boost deterrence against China’s growing aggression in the region and

A deep dive into China’s changing propaganda narratives on the South China Sea. The Marcos administration’s transparency policy has stripped away the façade of Beijing’s cooperation and “win-win” rhetoric,

By Karen Lema MANILA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Current ASEAN chair the Philippines said it looked forward to further talks with opponents of Myanmar's ruling junta, and expected to engage more groups while staying open to the outcome of its general elections,

The Philippines said on Wednesday that it will restore access to the Grok artificial intelligence system after the company of tech billionaire Elon Musk promised to remove features that allow for creation of pornographic content.

MANILA — ASEAN chair the Philippines has welcomed various political and ethnic groups from army-ruled Myanmar to a “stakeholders’ meeting”, Manila’s foreign minister said on Thursday, in a bid to advance the regional bloc’s stalled peace plan.

MANILA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines, as ASEAN chair, will insist that a long-delayed Code of Conduct with China on the South China Sea explicitly references the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as it works to complete the document by this year,