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China is expanding its military outreach to Southeast Asian countries.

ORIENTAL MINDORO: A radio broadcaster was shot dead outside his home in the central Philippines on Wednesday, police said, the latest in a long list of journalists killed in the country.

A hundred years ago, the Opium Commission heard the report of Monsignor Brent on the American efforts to suppress the abuse of opium in the Philippines

Typhoon Mawar lashed Taiwan’s eastern coast with wind, rains and large waves Tuesday but largely skirted the island after giving a glancing blow to the northern Philippines

SET-listed Asian Sea Corporation, a Thai frozen food producer, and its subsidiary Asian Alliance International (AAI) are ready to move their production base to Vietnam or the Philippines if the new coalition government raises the daily minimum wage to 450 baht.

Japan, the United States and the Philippines will hold their first trilateral maritime exercise off the Southeast Asian country's coast, Philippine officials said Monday, a move that will showcase their interoperability near the South China Sea, where Beijing is making assertive territorial claims.

The coast guard of the United States, Japan and the Philippines will hold trilateral maritime exercise in the South China Sea this week, the first such manoeuvres between them as a time of growing concern about China's moves in the region.

Authorities warned of dangerous tidal surges, flash floods and landslides as Typhoon Mawar blows past the northernmost province of Batanes from Tuesday to Wednesday.