Eid wouldn’t be the same without the yearly marathon of visits to friends and family, and the Eid trolley or table is always a focal point...
After a month of fasting, this array of goodies is a welcome invitation to indulge
With the absence of foreign tourists for a long time, the buffet and some visitors brought some joy to the heavyweights...
Colourful stock market billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala — dubbed by local media India's Warren Buffet — has died, his office said on Sunday, just a week after he launched the country's newest airline...
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by President Donald Trump’s gushing praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the recent APEC summit in Vietnam, Indian diplomats are hoping for a rich outcome when the two leaders meet in Manila on the sidelines of the Asean summit on Monday...
Local reports said the two would meet at Sofitel Philippine Plaza hotel on the Manila Bay for a 45-minute bilateral...
MARAWI (Philippines): Philippine troops on Sunday bombed fighters loyal to the militant Islamic State group who have held out for over four months in a southern city and the military said the conflict would be over “very soon”...
The army previously set a target of Sunday to end the fighting in Marawi, which it said has killed more than 1,000 people
BEIJING: The Philippines is nothing more than the “cute little submissive” of the United States, a Chinese tabloid with close ties to the ruling Communist Party said on Tuesday, criticising Manila for military exercises with Washington...
“We believe they’re now low on ammunition and food,” he said, speaking by phone from Manila, the capital...
MANILA: A huge fire chased hundreds of Philippine inmates out of their cells and razed a sprawling shantytown near a Manila prison on Friday, leaving thousands of residents homeless, authorities said...
About 500 handcuffed female prisoners were evacuated from Manila City Jail and moved on a temporary basis to a nearby chapel, as towering flames from the burning homes licked the jail’s exterior walls, said national prison bureau...
MANILA: An inferno in one of Manila’s huge shanty towns has killed nine people, authorities said on Friday, the third blaze to have struck the city’s slums in as many weeks...
MANILA: With another world title won, Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao touched down in Manila on Tuesday keen to get back to the real work of politics...
MANILA: Philippine officials sought on Friday to play down comments by President Rodrigo Duterte who announced his “separation” from the United States a day earlier, saying their country will maintain US trade and economic ties...
” Duterte’s efforts to engage China, months after a tribunal in the Hague ruled that Beijing did not have historic rights to the South China Sea in a case brought by the previous administration in Manila,...
MANILA: A small passenger plane carrying five people crashed into a house shortly after take-off north of Manila on Saturday, killing all those onboard and five people on the ground, officials said...
Red-hot lava gushed out of a Philippine volcano on Monday after a sudden eruption of ash and steam that forced villagers to flee and shut down Manila’s international airport, offices and schools...
But clouds of ash blew more than 100 kilometers north, reaching the bustling capital, Manila, and forcing the shutdown of the country’s main airport with more than 240 international and domestic flights cancelled so far...
MANILA: Philippine authorities moved thousands of residents in the capital, Manila, out of low-lying communities on Saturday as heavy monsoon rains, compounded by a tropical storm, flooded the city and nearby provinces...
The national disaster agency said about 15,000 people, most of them from a flood-prone Manila suburb, had moved into evacuation centres...
MANILA: Tens of thousands of travellers were stranded at a Philippine airport on Sunday after a power outage knocked out communication and radar equipment at the country’s busiest hub in Manila, forcing at least 360 flights to be cancelled, delayed or diverted...
Aviation authorities detected a “technical issue” on Sunday morning involving the air traffic management centre at Manila’s domestic and international airport...