The Jakarta Post
World The Philippine Coast Guard is beefing up security in the disputed waters around the country by deploying three vessels to conduct round-the-clock monitoring and security. The PCG has allocated the bulk of the P1.6 billion it received from the...
Zee News
All of those challenges need to be worked through, Willard said, adding, "We use the strategic level dialogue to, hopefully, do that." With China, the US is trying to improve its relations, government-to-government and military-to-military, to the...
Zee News
US has no desire for new military bases in Asia' Washington: The United States is placing renewed priority on Asia as it winds down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no desire for new bases in the region, the head of US forces in the Asia-Pacific...
GMA News
Less than six weeks after killer floods swept away their slum homes along a river in northern Mindanao in the southern Philippines, Lydia Abulanda and her neighbors are rebuilding despite warnings disaster could strike again. In a poverty-driven tale...
GMA News
The United States on Friday welcomed the Philippines' offer to allow more US troops on its territory, saying it would boost US power in Asia, and assured it was not seeking to re-establish bases in the former colony. The Philippines said earlier...
Scoop
The Philippines topped the disaster league table last year with 33 major reported events, affecting 12.5 per cent of the population, added the office, whose chief, Margareta Wahlstrom, visited the typhoon-devastated coastal cities of Iligan and...
Asian Tribune
17 editor Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the Philippines Nawalage Bennet Cooray handed over a donation of US $ 50,000 to that country's Foreign Minister, Albert F. Del Rosario recently for relief operations in the wake of the enormous natural disaster...
Taiwan News
The United States wants a greater military presence in Southeast Asia but does not seek permanent bases anywhere in the region, the chief of the Pacific Command said Friday. Despite impending budget cuts, the U.S. wants to reinforce its presence in...