The Philippine Online Chronicles

The trial looking into the gruesome slaying of 57 people back in November 2009 has encountered another stumbling block, with Quezon City Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes " partially granting " the motion filed by defense lawyers to postpone the proceedings. The trial, which was supposed t...

Five Filipinos – one man and four women - have been sentenced to death in China for acting as "drug mules," transporting drugs into China.

The government might be bringing its 2011 deficit down to P226 billion , said Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima on Wednesday. The budget deficit for next year was earlier set at P290 billion .

Rain will continue to fall over the country until the end of the week, due to a low pressure area east of Tuguegarao City.

A painting by the Renaissance artist Tiziano Vecellio, better known as Titian, that was hanging from the ceiling of a basilica in the northern Italian city of Venice has suffered water damage, because firefighters had doused the exterior of the church while battling a blaze t...

Research published online suggests that the tobacco industry may be using YouTube, as well as other Web 2.0 media, in order to get around restrictions on tobacco advertisements and market their products to young people, reported BBC News.