THE Senate convened on Monday for the historic impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, with the House prosecution ...

The Philippine Stock Exchange Inc. (PSE) elected two new independent directors and one new regular director to its board during its annual stockholders’ meeting over the weekend. The two new ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. answers questions from the Philippine media delegation as he concludes his official visit to ...

The Philippine Stock Exchange Inc. has welcomed three new directors to its 15-member board who were elected during the ...

Pope Francis on Monday bestowed the “pallium,” a white woolen vestment symbolizing a metropolitan archbishop’s pastoral ...

Legal, religious, and social shakeups sweep Asia via landmark church rulings, political arrests, and policy overhauls across Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, ...

Hundreds of Catholic devotees wrapped themselves in dried banana leaves and covered their bodies with mud on Wednesday in the ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Great Britain, France and Germany on Wednesday issued a rare joint statement expressing alarm over ...

Has the state of California reached critical mass? Is California a failed state? Is it a nationalembarrassment? Case in point. California has the highest income and gas taxes. Its roads rank 49 in the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Mowelfund Film Institute celebrates four decades of Philippine independent cinema. The first-ever indie film and video festival was held in the now-defunct Wave theater at Araneta Center in 1986.

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara — ShelterBox USA is responding in the Philippines after a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the ...