The United Nations Human Rights Council voted Thursday to investigate the thousands of deaths connected to the Philippines' ongoing war on drugs, attracting swift condemnation from the Duterte administration.

Police in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte have carried out extrajudicial executions with impunity, in the poorest neighborhoods, as part of his war on drugs, Amnesty International said in a new report.

The Philippines is condemning the actions of a Chinese boat crew after the vessel collided with then sunk a Filipino boat.

Canada and the Philippines have agreed on a Wednesday deadline for the return of non-recyclable Canadian garbage.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs is taking a toll on the country's poorest women and children.

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake rocked the Philippines island of Eastern Samar Tuesday, a day after an earthquake hit the Asian nation's largest Luzon island.

A strong earthquake rattled the Philippines Monday, toppling electricity poles and damaging infrastructure, officials said.

Fourteen people were killed and 16 others arrested in joint military and police operations in central Philippines against suspected communist rebels.

News organization CEO and Time magazine's 2018 "Person of the Year" Maria Ressa was arrested Friday for having allegedly violated Philippine's anti-dummy law.

Journalist and Time magazine's 2018 Person of the Year was released from jail Thursday after posting bail for cyber libel, a charge seen by freedom of speech advocates as a way to muzzle the media.

Sri Lanka will soon end a 43-year moratorium on capital punishment and begin hanging condemned inmates within a couple months.

Authorities in the Philippines said Wednesday that four people wanted in connection to Sunday's bomb blasts in Jolo, Sulu turned themselves in.

Two people were killed and four others were injured Tuesday after a grenade was lobbed into a mosque in the Philippine city of Zamboanga.

Twin bombs struck a cathedral in the Philippines on Sunday before services, killing at least 27 people and injuring at least 83 others, authorities said.

A statue dedicated to "comfort women" who were raped and assaulted in wartime has been removed in the Philippines, only two days after its unveiling.