The Department of Justice will hold a preliminary investigation on the charges against alleged drug lord Peter Lim. The DOJ set the first hearing at 10am on August 14.

A court in Ifugao has acquitted two activists from Cagayan Valley, including one who was a government worker, who had been detained for close to five years while being tried on charges filed against them by the military stemming from their alleged involvement in the New People’s Army.

Should it become a law, the bill granting free college education will require a budget of at least P100 billion a year, which the government cannot afford, the Duterte administration’s economic managers admitted to the House of Representatives Tuesday.

A tricycle driver was killed and four other persons, two of them minors, wounded when what police believe was an improvised explosive device along the national highway in Barangay Pasong Intsik in Guimba town Monday afternoon.

China loves peace but will never compromise on defending its sovereignty, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday while marking 90 years since the founding of the People's Liberation Army.

With new infections more than doubling over the past six years, the Philippines now has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in Asia and the Pacific, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS or UNAIDS said.

The military and police have been arbitrarily picking up evacuees from Marawi City and, in some cases, allegedly torturing them in efforts to weed out extremist gunmen who have been battling government forces for more than two months now, a human rights group said Tuesday.

HBO declined to comment on reports that unbroadcast episodes and scripts were among the data hacked.

The chairman of the House of Representatives’ committee on dangerous drugs castigated officials of the Bureau of Customs for the “glaring ineptitude” that allowed P6.4 billion worth of crystal meth or “shabu” to slip into the country.

Government economic managers briefed the House of Representatives on the proposed P3.767-trillion 2018 national budget to seek support for appropriations Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno intended for the “efficient and effective” delivery of “inclusive and lasting” services.

She hinted that she could be cooking up a horror film just like three of her four titles that are already in the iflix library.

(UPDATE - 1:27 p.m.) Thailand's former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra delivered a tearful closing statement to a Bangkok court on Tuesday, saying she did not act dishonestly in a multi-billion dollar rice subsidy scheme and that she was being politically persecuted.

Local government officials and workers no longer need to present an authority to travel to immigration officers when going abroad.

A defiant Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro mocked the sanctions Washington slapped on him Monday after Sunday's election of a new legislative superbody that prompted the White House to call him a dictator for "seizing absolute power."

Replacing incumbent elected barangay officials with appointed officers-in-charge, as Congress plans to do, will violate the Constitution and existing laws, Albay Representative Edcel Lagman said.