The Duterte administration is left with a total balance of over 800,000 hectares of agricultural landholdings that the previous administration failed to acquire and distribute to farmer-beneficiaries of the CARP due to the absence of a law that would fund its implementation.

The bicameral conference committee on the tax reform package agreed Thursday to set a higher cap on the tax-exempt Christmas bonus of workers, and the TRAIN bill's chief sponsor in the Senate said this goes together with the adjustment of the income tax exemption to P250,000 to ensure workers bring home much bigger pay by 2018.

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and that it will move its embassy to the holy city.

A research study by Japanese financial company Nomura tagged the Philippines, India, and Indonesia as Asia’s “new rising stars” as these are seen to boost the region’s potential growth by at least eight percent in 2018.

(UPDATED) "Si Ma'am, alam naman ninyo, boss ko si President Arroyo. And I know that you know that I owe a lot sa kanya," said President Duterte.

Two American B-1B heavy bombers joined large-scale combat drills over South Korea on Thursday amid warnings from North Korea that the exercises and U.S. threats have made the outbreak of war “an established fact”.

Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo has been ordered dismissed from public service by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales for grave misconduct over the allegedly anomalous use of the province’s 2013 budget.

In this crime drama, the actor plays one of two Jesuit priests tasked to to analyze forensic evidence involving a series of murders.

More than three quarters of the total office supply projected to come online in 2018 are located in Bonifacio Global Center (BGC), as investors continue to flock to the central business district despite rising leasing rates, according to Santos Knight Frank, Inc.

DOT encouraged the beauty queens to invite their friends and family to visit the Philippines as well.

On the heels of President Duterte's tagging of the communist party and the New People's Army as "terrorists", the Department of Justice took twin moves to have the courts formally declare them terrorists, and cancel the provisional liberty of their leaders who were released to join the since-scuttled peace talks with government.

The DOT conspires to have three Miss Universe beauty queens in one exciting travel roadshow.

(UPDATE - 11:38 a.m., December 8, 2017) Former Quezon City vice mayor Rosario “Charito” L. Planas, who survived persecution under the Marcos martial law and led a campaign opposing ratification of the 1973 Constitution, passed away Thursday morning at the age of 87, QC Mayor Herbert M. Bautista said.

The House of Representatives will stand firm against a provision increasing the tax on coal in the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion bill because this would increase power rates to the detriment of consumes, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said Thursday, December 7.

(UPDATE - 1:52 p.m.) At least two soldiers were wounded in ongoing clashes with communist rebels in southern Negros Occidental Thursday morning, December 7, authorities said.