Risk aversion has weakened the Philippine peso to the 51-level to a dollar Friday morning. The local unit touched the 51.08 mid-trade, its weakest in the day’s first half trading.

(UPDATED 10:44 p.m.) The government will cull at least 400,000 heads of chickens, quails and ducks after Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol confirmed an avian flu outbreak in San Luis, Pampanga he said has killed some 37,000 fowl since April.

The entire Pampanga province has been placed under a state of calamity following the outbreak of avian flu that Governor Lilia Pineda estimated could cost the poultry sector at least P2 billion in losses.

Before he was assigned as packing list translator and/or facilitator of a shipment that later was found to contain shabu and then quizzed at the Senate, Kenneth Dong already personally knew some of the lawmakers at the Upper Chamber.

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The inclusion of the oil excise tax in the Duterte administration's tax reform program is not the sole factor to blame for the rise in oil prices, the Department of Finance said Thursday. Activists mobilized by the Freedom from Debt Coalition, however, marched on the Senate to ask it to reject the House version of tax reforms and craft a package that does not hurt the poor and low-wage sectors.

The court has thumbed down the plea of siblings Nova Princess Parojinog and Reynaldo Parojinog Jr. to attend the wake and burial of their parents, who were among those killed in the July 30 predawn raid in Ozamiz City.

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The Presidential Commission on Good Government is investigating Commission on Elections chairman Andres Bautista, who used to head the agency tasked with recovering assets plundered by the Marcos family, over allegations of ill-gotten wealth.

(UPDATE 4 - 3:06 p.m.) A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Nasugbu, Batangas early Friday afternoon but the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said no damage is expected because of the tremor’s depth but it did warn of aftershocks.