The Philippine president says he is perplexed Beijing is accusing him of ‘playing with fire’

KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who concluded his two-day official visit to the Philippines today, described the country's capital, Manila, as very special to him.

MANILA, June 5 — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Sunday raised the alert level for Bulusan volcano from zero to one after the volcano in Sorsogon province, southeast of Manila, spewed a grey plume about a kilometre high into the sky.

TOKYO, July 26 — National swimmer Phee Jinq En had only one goal in the Tokyo Olympics, rewriting her own national record in the women's 100 metre (m) breaststroke event.

MANILA, April 3 — Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has extended a strict lockdown in the capital region and adjacent provinces by at least one week to try to contain a renewed surge in Covid-19 infections, his spokesman said on Saturday.