The Philippine national men's basketball team overcame Japan in a tough battle, 77-71, to open its FIBA World Cup qualifying campaign with a victory...

Conditions in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state “are not in place to enable safe and sustainable returns” of more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees who fled violence to Bangladesh since late August, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday.

Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has instructed the National Bureau of Investigation to find out if former officials of the Aquino administration had a hand in the alleged right of way racket in General Santos City.

An art festival, musicals to enjoy, the biggest shopping bazaars—these are just a few of our favorite things happening this weekend.

Scientists in Hungary say they have measured brain activity in dogs which shows they learn during their sleep.

(UPDATED) "The PNP’s return at the helm of the drug war would be a return to a reign of error and terror at yuletide. Instead of a joyous Christmas, there will be mourning and wailing among the poor, who are targets of the drug war," Akbayan party-list Rep. Tom Villarin said.

Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman has appealed to the House Committee on Justice to allow him to pose questions to Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro if she appears in the impeachment hearing against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.

He worked as acting assistant regional director of the Civil Service Commission in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao before he was appointed to the Comelec.

North Korea has reportedly replaced guards and fortified a section of its border with South Korea where a North Korean soldier staged a daring defection last week, while South Korean and U.S. soldiers have been decorated for their role in his rescue.

Agnes Devanadera was the solicitor-general, who also became the acting chief of the Department of Justice, during the presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Papua New Guinean police cleared the remaining asylum-seekers from a shuttered Australian-run detention complex on Friday, ending a three-week protest which started with some 600 people surviving on rain water and smuggled food and supplies.

A 63-year old Japanese and three of his Filipino employees were arrested by agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group for alleged illegal recruitment.

Pope Francis visits Myanmar next week, a delicate trip for the world’s most senior Christian to a majority Buddhist country accused by Washington of the “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya people.

A U.S. Navy said it has called off a search for three sailors missing since a transport plane crashed in the Philippines Sea south of Japan on Wednesday en route to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier.

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre ordered on Friday, November 24, the National Bureau of Investigation to investigate a malversation complaint against former President Benigno Aquino III as well as the alleged misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund and the Disbursement Acceleration Program.