The Philippine government commissioned the building of the Kaliwa Dam on the Agos River decades ago as part of a larger plan to help get more water to Manila. But construction finally broke ground ...

Manila and Beijing have opened a new front in the South China Sea ... in the Spratly Islands is evidence of Chinese island-building, Philippine coast guard spokesman Commodore Jay Tarriela ...

A Philippine military spokesman later confirmed that the U.S. was providing “non-combat assistance.” Marawi is the latest front in what has been a recent surge of apparently ISIS-linked ...