MANILA, Philippines - While some lawmakers hope that Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales would stand by the men and women of her office amid the latest...

The local government has recently passed Ordinance 2623-2017 banning people from roaming around naked in the city's public places.

Is it time to shut down the "private" blog of Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson, whose controversial posts have spawned reactions among taxpayers who ask why they should subsidize her at all by paying her big salary as a Palace official?

The physician who allegedly served the Maute Group along with 50 members of the homegrown terrorist organization that led the siege of Marawi is facing a slew of charges from the Department of Justice.

Jeepneys, the flamboyant passenger trucks of the Philippines, are nearing the end of their reign as the “Kings of the Road”, but they’re not going down without a fight.

A member of a lumad organization was shot dead early this week in Arakan town, Cotabato province while a peasant leader in Misamis Oriental survived an attempt on his life late last week in the latest incidents of attacks against activists, especially in Mindanao, human rights groups said.

The human rights group Karapatan called the relaunch of Oplan Tokhang as “a superficial makeover” of a policy that it said was “ineffective” and “fundamentally wrong.” And, in separate developments, the Catholic bishops and a church-backed support group for families of alleged EJK victims asked government to ensure the violence that attended Tokhang is not repeated.

The Pentagon has restricted the release of critical information on the progress being made in the war in Afghanistan, a move that will limit transparency, the U.S. government’s top watchdog on Afghanistan said on Monday.

The election lawyer of Vice President Leni Robredo said the Commission on Elections and Presidential Electoral Tribunal should investigate former Senator Ferdinand Marcos’ claim that he is in possession of “hundreds upon hundreds” of supposedly irregular ballot images in his electoral protest.

Delays in the procurement process can be remedied, as the anti-red tape law and similar measures mandate, but problems of delays and corruption cannot be shortcircuited by altogether scuttling the usual bidding process, Sen. Grace Poe has warned.

Disinformation, or any deliberate act to mislead people -- now widely tagged "Fake news" -- has existed for a long time and requires no new legislation to conquer. There are enough laws and institutions to fight them, InterAksyon and BusinessWorld editor in chief Roby Alampay told a Senate hearing Tuesday.

A project providing a 71.13-kilometer rail connection between Subic Bay and Clark Freeport Zone has been given the green light by the country's economic managers.



As the title suggests, the show follows the Montero brothers experiencing 'the worst holiday anecdotes to ever grace the internet.'

The central bank is looking to introduce a new risk management measure that would require banks to set aside additional capital as reserves, this time to cover potential losses amid rapid loan growth.

A Russian Su-27 fighter jet intercepted a U.S. surveillance plane over the Black Sea on Monday, prompting the U.S. State Department to protest the maneuver as “an unsafe interaction.”