Despite his busy schedule, including preparations for this weekend's flight to Japan for a working visit, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte found time to oblige a California-based 11-year-old Fil-Am boy who needed to do a Nationality Report and wondered if the President would be so kind as to greet his teacher?

Carjackers booking rides with transport network vehicle services in order to steal their cars struck again, shooting dead GrabCar driver-partner Gerardo Amolato Maquidato Jr. Friday night before taking his Toyota Innova in Pasay City, the sixth such carnapping of a TNVS this year, as reported by Grab alone.

Apple Inc quashed concerns of muted demand for its iPhone X on Friday, saying pre-orders for the 10th anniversary phone were “off the charts”.

Building solutions provider Holcim Philippines has posted a 57.6-percent decline in profit in the first three quarters of the year on lower volumes and prices.

Leading telecoms and digital services provider PLDT is further boosting investments in its fixed and wireless networks to provide consumers with the best data experience that supports their increasingly digital lifestyle.

A federal grand jury on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters.

The world’s biggest technology companies are only getting bigger and, for now, Wall Street analysts think there’s no stopping them.

Newly named presidential spokesman Harry Roque said Saturday, October 28, that he accepted the position “with the specific purpose of getting an audience with the President (Rodrigo Duterte) to address key human rights issues in the Philippines.”

U.S. scientists on Wednesday unveiled two new molecular editing tools designed to fix mutations that cause the majority of human genetic diseases, some of which have no known treatment.

The earth is a fragile thing that could even destroy itself, Pope Francis told astronauts on the International Space Station on Thursday, saying they had an opportunity to see the planet “from the eyes of God.”

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered a 24-hour suspension to military operations against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, to allow for the peaceful deployment of Iraqi troops at the border crossings with the Kurdistan region.

A religious organization has raised the alarm over the arrest of five members of the Banwaon tribe of Agusan del Sur and a field worker for a European Union-funded project on indigenous peoples’ rights.

“Chairman Mao freed the Chinese people from the oppression of the West, while Xi Jinping has dedicated himself to giving new China a greater voice on the global stage,” said Song Yangbiao, a Beijing-based neo-Maoist freelance journalist.

The United States wants a meeting soon aimed at reviving a four-way dialogue between itself, Japan, India and Australia to deepen security cooperation and coordinate alternatives for regional infrastructure financing to that offered by China, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

An Italian man was sentenced on Friday to 24 years in prison for infecting more than 30 women by having unprotected sex with them despite knowing that he was HIV positive, a court ruled.