LATEST PHILIPPINE NEWS

Here are the latest news from the Philippines taken from various media sources.

Concerns are rising that the use of electronic voting machines in the May Philippines election, meant to prevent vote-rigging, could fail due to technical problems and end up threatening rather than reinforcing the credibility of the ballot.

ATI Produksyon and Beats Bytes Production, both community partners of the Philippine embassy of Qatar, recently managed and directed the launch of the 112th Philippine Independence Day Celebration at Millennium Hotel, officials said.

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BAYOMBONG: Banaue town in Ifugao province, where the famous rice terraces are located, has been placed under a state of calamity due to the continued dry spell caused by the El Nino phenomenon that has dried up rice fields.

Marines killed seven suspected Abu Sayyaf members during a pre-dawn raid in the southern Philippines, state-run media reported.

On Valentine's Day, Philippine government health workers hit the streets of Manila to hand out roses and condoms to passers-by. The message was clear in a country with a relatively small but rapidly growing HIV-positive population: Avoid unprotected sex.

In the light of typhoons and other recent calamities, the Philippine Government has simplified procedures in the acceptance of donated relief goods for the victims of such calamities.

MANILA: Twelve people were killed when a bus carrying vacationers slammed into a tree in the northern Philippines, police said Sunday.