It's not just the reduction of the Commission on Human Rights' 2018 budget to a ridiculous P1,000 that has gotten senators worried: the House of Representatives' move to give the Energy Regulatory Commission a similar P1,000 budget could have dire consequences on the country's power situation, according to the Senate's energy committee chief.

The country's association of law schools on Thursday exhorted lawmakers who will play key roles in the impeachment process of the Chief Justice and the Commission on Elections chair to ensure the process is conducted "in the most judicious, fair and effective manner guided by the rule of law."

President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former Gabriela party-list representative Luzviminda Cololot Ilagan as Department of Social Welfare and Development undersecretary.

Scientists develop a 3D-printed prototype wearable brain scanner they say is four times as sensitive as current magnetoencephalography systems.

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to become a major player in autonomous driving, building on its recent $8 billion acquisition of audio and auto parts supplier Harman and its pole position in mobile communications markets.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has a problem with women, says the woman who has known him longer than perhaps any other: his sister Jocellyn. Duterte’s female critics included his vice president, a prominent senator who is now in jail and the head of the Philippines Supreme Court.

Credit reporting company Equifax Inc blamed a web server vulnerability in its open-source software, called Apache Struts, for the recent data breach that compromised personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers.

Saying there has been too much bloodshed already, Pablo Virgilio "Ambo" David, the Catholic bishop of Caloocan, where two teens died in the hands of the police, is urging relatives of young victims of extrajudicial killings as well as those who have witnessed the executions to come forward and tell what they know.

Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales has affirmed the finding of probable cause to charge former President Benigno Aquino III before the Sandiganbayan for the 2015 Mamasapano tragedy, where 44 members of the police Special Action Force on a mission to get a Malaysian terrorist were instead killed in a clash with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Maguindanao.

The Philippines has remained among East Asia and the Pacific’s top 10 economies in terms of human resource development, according to an annual report of the World Economic Forum that nevertheless showed the country slipping in regional and global ranking, weighed down by challenges in skills application and accumulation through work.

Had Obello Bay-ao not gone home to Talaingod, Davao del Norte to help with the farming, the Grade 7 student of the Salugpongan Tu Tano Igkanogon-Community Learning Center Inc., a lumad school, might well be alive still, his cousin Rorilyn Mandacawan said.

The second edition of the Great Lean Run gets under way this Saturday, Sept 16. Last year, participants crawled through mud under barbed wire, got bombarded by water cannons, and ran away from "Metrocom police" and "paramilitary groups". All while hearing chants and songs which activists used during the Marcos era.

DOJ opened the preliminary investigation of the murder and torture of 17-year old student Kian Lloyd de los Santos, with lawyers for four cop-respondents clashing with the chief public attorney over the inclusion in criminal charges of policemen who just happened to be at the Caloocan police station when the schoolboy was murdered, but had no role in the anti-drug sweep on the night of Aug. 17.

Because we're craving for it.

(UPDATE 2 - 2:34 p.m.) It was a break-up waiting to happen. Following "one disappointment happening after another," the seven lawmakers of the Makabayan bloc finally bolted from the majority in the House of Representatives.