Sabih al-Masri, a Palestinian billionaire and the chairman of Jordan’s largest lender Arab Bank, was detained in Saudi Arabia for questioning after a business trip to Riyadh, family sources and friends said on Saturday.

Filipinos in hardship areas, such as Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, can now come home to the Philippines following the approval of a proposal that would allow them to visit their loved ones and still return to their jobs, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has announced.

Around 640 families were evacuated from coastal villages in three towns in the province of Dinagat as strong winds and rain swept through much of the island province Saturday morning.

Quezon City police arrested Friday a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) charged earlier with murder and who had been masking his identity by posing as a tricycle driver in an urban poor community.

A subsidiary of listed cement manufacturer Cemex Holdings Philippines Inc. (CHP) has gotten the green light from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for the proposed expansion of its production line in Antipolo City, Rizal.

Even while lawmakers are conducting separate inquiries into the P3.5-billion Dengvaxia fiasco, officials should move quickly to stop "an ongoing cover-up" among DOH officials involved in the Aquino-era dengue immunization program who could prevent the incumbent DOH secretary from getting to the bottom of the scandal, a public health expert warned at the weekend.

Big names in hospitality, from Disney to Hilton and Hyatt, have a little-known sideline: They rent space to physicians who train on cadavers and body parts. There is scant regulation, and some public-health specialists warn of biosafety risks.

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Cash remittances recovered in October to a two-month high, the central bank reported on Friday, as overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) took advantage of a weaker peso to get more out of their funds.

A North Korean soldier who suffered critical gunshot wounds during a defection dash across the border to South Korea has been transferred to a military hospital, a South Korean intelligence official said on Saturday.

Maynilad Water Services Inc. will be increasing its basic rate by P0.97 per cubic meter in January.

Sombath Somphone of Laos, a 2005 recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, often called “Asia’s Nobel Prize,” disappeared the night of December 15, 2012. He remains missing to this day.

An ingredient in cannabis called cannabidiol or CBD has shown promise in a clinical trial as a potential new treatment for psychosis, scientists said on Friday.

(UPDATE - 10:54 a.m.) Canadian police said they were investigating the mysterious deaths of the billionaire founder of Canadian pharmaceutical firm Apotex Inc, Barry Sherman, and his wife, Honey, who were found dead in their Toronto mansion on Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday that the United States was demanding “the immediate release” of two Reuters reporters arrested in Myanmar “or information as to the circumstances around their disappearance.”