Still, no child's chance at survival should depend on geography or charity alone. The gains seen at the SPMC and its Mindanao Pediatric Cancer Network must be institutionalized, scaled and sustained.

Luzon, with a contiguous land area of 41,754 square miles, is the biggest of the islands followed by landlocked Mindanao with 36,372 square miles, and the Visayas, with 37,674 uncontigous land area.

He added that the violent activities of these groups increase in frequency and geography ... and their main objective is to remove the whole Mindanao from its allegiance to the Philippine government.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law Tuesday on the southern island of Mindanao as security forces battled heavily armed militants linked to the Islamic State in a provincial ...

The shallow quake hit just before 6:30 a.m. about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) from the village of Barcelona on the east side of Mindanao island, the USGS said. Many people were sleeping when the ...

Cagayan de Oro is a hub city in Mindanao, a giant southern Philippine island that you may have been taught to avoid. At least four Muslim rebel groups operate on the island and once in a while ...

A woman looks at destroyed houses after a large earthquake that hit the southern island of Mindanao. A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Tuesday, leaving at least seven ...

At least four people were killed and dozens of others were injured in the blast at the Mindanao State University in Marawi City, according to authorities. In a communique, ISIS said its fighters ...

MANILA, Philippines —President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday swore in lawyer Antonio Cerilles as presidential adviser on Mindanao concerns. This was announced by Marcos on his social media ...

MANILA, Philippines — The government targets to pour in at least P1.2 trillion worth of infrastructure projects in Mindanao over the course of the Marcos administration’s term. Department of ...

MANILA, Philippines — Billionaire Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is looking at the possibility of setting up a launchpad in Mindanao, according to Ambassador to the ...