Robert Siegel talks to Richard Brennan, World Health Organization director of emergency risk management and humanitarian response, about the geographic challenges of sending humanitarian aid to ...

The Philippine archipelago lies in Southeast Asia in a position that has led to its becoming a cultural crossroads, a place where Malays, Chinese, Spaniards, Americans, and others have interacted to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Does China have a claim over the Philippines’ Panatag Shoal and Benham Rise? Perhaps, the old maps on display at the ongoing “Mapping the Philippine Seas” exhibit of The ...

Doomed by geography and hobbled by poverty, the Philippines has long tried to minimise the damage caused by the 20 or so typhoons that hit the sprawling archipelago every year. But despite a ...

The Philippines is composed of over 7000 islands, out of which only approximately 2000 are inhabited, lying in the western Pacific Ocean. The nation is south of Taiwan and east of Vietnam, bounded in ...