The Department of Finance (DOF) projects another deceleration in the rate of price increases in the Philippines for December 2017 as macroeconomic fundamentals continue to remain strong.

(UPDATE - 6:26 a.m.) Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada has suspended classes in all levels, as well as work in the local government, on January 9, Tuesday, for the Traslacion or the procession of the image of the Black Nazarene, which draws millions of devotees to the city.

The management of the amusement park Circle of Fun in Quezon Memorial Circle may face charges of reckless imprudence resulting in multiple physical injuries...

The Department of Energy has invited oil industy participants to discuss better implementation and the transition to the new tax reform package that took effect in the New Year, the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN).

(UPDATE 2, 6:50 p.m) Talk of a "no election" scenario in 2019 and a possible extension of President Duterte's term thrust government critics in anxiety Wednesday, after leaders of the two chambers of Congress, both his partymates, left open such possibilities in the transition to federalism, which will involve Charter change.

She became known this past year for playing antagonist roles in 'Ang Probinsyano' and 'La Luna Sangre.'

The Philippines has topped anew other countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the manufacturing purchasing manager’s index (PMI) in December 2017.

DoubleDragon Properties Corp. is pushing through with its follow-on offering, as the property developer bets big on the growth in the countryside.

This year’s Traslacion, or procession of the Black Nazarene, scheduled January 9, Tuesday, will have a new feature -- 12 prayer stations strung out along the route from the Quirino Grandstand to Quiapo Church.

Detained Senator Leila de Lima is wondering if an increase in the satisfaction among the elite classes in President Rodrigo Duterte means “they are, in fact, profiting” from what she called “creeping martial and authoritarian rule.”

After previously disclosing that yet another ranking government official was to be sacked, presidential spokesman Harry Roque said late Wednesday morning, January 3, that he had been ordered to “defer” the scheduled announcement.

The government has suspended operations of Davao City’s NCCC mall and a call center run by a U.S. firm where a fire killed 38 people, citing failure to fully comply with fire safety requirements for five successive years.

U.S. President Donald Trump, responding to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un saying he had a nuclear button on his desk, said in a tweet on Tuesday that his nuclear button “is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

The compromise agreement, ostensibly for the recovery of the Marcos wealth, that lawyer Oliver Lozano has proposed, is actually meant to free the late dictator’s family from criminal liability for what happened during his rule, Albay Representative Edcel Lagman said on Wednesday, January 3.

The Syrian army backed by Russian jets escalated bombing of the last rebel bastion on the eastern outskirts of Damascus as they prepared to break a siege of an army base encircled by opposition forces, residents and witnesses said on Wednesday.