Myanmar prosecutors sought charges on Wednesday against two Reuters reporters under the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years, the reporters’ lawyer said.

The United States is doing "everything possible" to promote and protect freedom of navigation and freedom of flight in the Asia Pacific and is not "retreating and giving space to China," Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Y. Kim said
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The implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion is expected to lead to price increases to be borne by consumers, prompting government to allocate P24.5 billion this year alone for cash grants of P200 per month to the poorest 10 million Filipino families.

Rescue crews with dogs and scanners dug through waist-deep mud in an affluent stretch of Southern California’s coast on Wednesday, hunting for some two dozen people missing after mudslides swept through, killing at least 15.

Hidilyn Diaz said poverty should never be a hindrance to being an accomplished person and instead foster resourcefulness.

The likelihood of winning a senatorial seat in next year's mid-term polls does not excite the son and namesake of the late strongman. What he wants is to pursue his fight to be proclaimed as the country's second highest leader.

Detained opposition Sen. Leila de Lima again assailed the Duterte administration over what she called the "impunity virus" allegedly plaguing the government, particularly the judiciary.

The Oil Industry Management Bureau has deployed a team of inspectors to randomly check the inventories of service stations and depots nationwide.

Officials of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board and transport network companies like UBER, GRAB and i-Hop signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) vowing to team up in fighting illegal drugs, amid rising cases of TNC drivers being victimized by drug dealers.

The government has allocated P24.5 billion for the unconditional cash grants worth P200 per month for the poorest 50 percent of households, or about 10 million families, to offset price increases resulting from the implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN).

The Senate will open discussions anew on the proposed amendment or revision of the 1987 Constitution next Wednesday, January 17, after the House of Representatives finished deliberations on the P3.767-trillion national budget for 2018 and the new government tax program TRAIN.

Sounding certain on the emergence of a new Constitution and the shift to a federal government, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez called on his constituents in Davao del Norte's first district to give their all-out support for the initiative.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has cautioned the public about the risks of investing in virtual currency, after detecting that certain companies, individuals or groups of persons were luring the public, either through popular social media platforms or through their own independent website, to participate in so-called ICO and to purchase the corresponding virtual currency.

The Philippine and Japanese governments are on track to ink a deal for a new maintenance contract for the Metro Rail Transit-3 (MRT-3).

The Ombudsman has asked the antigraft court to return to jail ex-Palawan governor Joel Reyes, for a case separate from the murder of broadcaster-environmentalist Gerry Ortega: this time, for his graft case arising from the allegedly anomalous renewal of “small scale mining permits, and for which he was earlier convicted.