The Senate finance committee approved the more than P195-billion proposed 2018 budget for the Department of National Defense but Senator Antonio Trillanes IV wants P500 million from the police anti-drug “Oplan Double Barrel” realigned to augment the military’s intelligence funds.

The House of Representatives will not allow itself to be dictated to by the Senate on the matter of the 2018 budget of the Commission on Human Rights, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said.

Senator Risa Hontiveros accused Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II of “squid tactics” and dared him to make good on this threat to sue her for exposing what she said was an alleged plot involving the Cabinet official to file charges against her.

An alliance of indigenous people’s organizations in the Cordillera region is not satisfied with the P1,000 budget granted by the House of Representatives to the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and wants the agency abolished altogether.

Discover the best Philippine culinary books at the country's longest running book fair.

A fire at an Islamic boarding school killed at least 25 people, most of them students, in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur after breaking out in a dormitory early on Thursday morning, officials said.

North Korea displayed trademark defiance on Wednesday over new United Nations sanctions imposed after its sixth and largest-ever nuclear test, vowing to redouble efforts to fight off what it said was the threat of a U.S. invasion.

Aside from the members of the House of Representatives who voted for or against the P1,000 budget for the Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday, Netizens also took to task lawmakers who were absent during the vote.

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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged Myanmar authorities to end violence against the majority-Buddhist country’s Rohingya Muslims that has forced some 400,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.

A student carrying two guns opened fire at his high school near Spokane, Washington on Wednesday, killing one classmate and injuring three others before he was apprehended by a staff member, the local sheriff said.

As the House of Representatives steps up its exercise of its impeachment power by tackling the complaint against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, a group of lawyers warned such "rituals" could weaken the independence of the judiciary and usher in a "tyrannical rule."

The Philippine Embassy here dispatched a separate Embassy Response Team to deliver emergency supplies to Filipinos on the US Virgin Islands, one of the areas ravaged by hurricane Irma, according to Chargé d’Affaires Patrick A. Chuasoto.

Inspired by the freak shows of the early 20th century, the music video was shot by cinematographer Pao Orendain.

The stage adaptation of the classic fairy tale runs until December 14 at the Onstage theater in Greenbelt 1.