MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Philippine customs officials were astonished when they opened nicely gift-wrapped boxes of cookies and oatmeal flown in all the way from Poland and found a hair-raising ...

Customs officials in the Philippines were in for a creepy-crawly surprise Monday when they found 757 live tarantulas stored inside gift-wrapped boxes of cookies and oatmeal. The spiders had been flown ...

MANILA, PhilippinesMANILA, Philippines — Philippine customs officials say they have seized more than 100 endangered green sea turtles intended to be smuggled to other countries. Deputy customs ...

Manila: Philippine customs officials on Sunday seized 571 components and devices used to commit card fraud at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). An unidentified Hong Kong resident ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte publicly ordered the country's top customs official to shoot and kill drug smugglers in one of his most overt threats during a deadly ...

Bureau of Customs personnel seized the 757 tarantulas at a mail exchange center near Manila's international airport. The Bureau of Customs personnel later arrested a Filipino man who tried to claim ...

The animals were found alive but wrapped in duct tape. LONDON -- Over 1,500 exotic turtles and tortoises that were being smuggled into the Philippines' main airport were intercepted by authorities on ...

Filipino customs officials found four suitcases left in the arrivals area of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport near Manila on Sunday. And when they opened them, they found a startling surprise – ...

The Philippine Bureau of Customs said it will confiscate gasoline imports by Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s local unit to pay for disputed tax claims once a court lifts a restraining order on the planned ...

John P. Sevilla took over the Bureau of Customs in December 2013, shortly after the government initiated a major reform drive designed to clean up the notoriously corrupt agency and boost customs ...

The head of the Philippine customs bureau resigned Thursday over what he called mounting political pressure undermining his efforts to fight corruption at the agency. “We know that the Bureau of ...

Customs officials in the Philippines have seized 1,529 live turtles found wrapped in duct tape inside four suitcases abandoned at the international airport in Manila. The confiscated turtles include ...