'Coco' is the first Disney-Pixar film to have a female supervising animator in Gini Santos, a native of Pasay City.

Albay Representative Edcel Lagman on Thursday reiterated his call to allow Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to be represented by a counsel when the impeachment proceedings against her resumes this month.

China and the Philippines have agreed to avoid force to resolve their differences over the South China Sea, according to a joint statement issued on Thursday by China at the end of a visit to Manila by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations stressed “non-militarization and self-restraint in the conduct of activities by all claimants and all other states” in the South China Sea but again steered shy of a stronger stance on China’s reclamation and militarization in the vital waterway.

The Sandiganbayan stood by its decision to grant bail to former Senator Jinggoy Estrada, rejecting for lack of merit the Office of the Ombudsman’s appeal to reverse its earlier ruling.

Zimbabwe was on a knife’s edge on Thursday after the military seized power in what it dubbed a targeted operation against “criminals” in the entourage of President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled the southern African nation for almost four decades.

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said he will no longer be posting on his social media accounts as he has turned these over to a "Palace professional" because he had “ceased to have my own identity” on assuming the post.

On November 14, around 6:30 p.m., as Maynard Allan Manalo and his girlfriend were chatting in the place called Hagdang Bato in Barangay Pembo, Makati City, three men, their faces masked in bonnets, approached and opened fire on the young man.

Mount Kanlaon on Negros Island remained under Alert Level 2, meaning the volcano is “undergoing a moderate level of unrest,” on Thursday, November 16, after the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology recorded 217 volcanic earthquakes over the past 24 hours.

(UPDATE 2 - 12:59 p.m.) Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III predicted a "more riveting growth narrative" in the fourth quarter and beyond as the Duterte administration ramps up spending on infrastructure projects.

The leader of farmers in the vast Tarlac estate owned by the Cojuangco family that activists hold up as they symbol of agrarian reform’s failure, was arrested Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the 2004 Hacienda Luisita massacre, in which seven striking farm workers were killed.

Russia’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a law that would give Moscow the power to force foreign media to brand the news they provide to Russians as the work of “foreign agents” and also to disclose where they get their funding.

The plaintiff said The Weinstein Company and Miramax aided Weinstein in covering up allegations of sexual misconduct.

Microsoft recently announced that a new Minecraft Hour of Code Tutorial, Hero’s Journey, has been released as part of its ongoing support for Hour of Code.

In a country where transportation systems are privately owned, the cost of modernization would be a clear burden to the estimated 500,000 jeepney drivers and small operators.