The reported donation by the Omidyar Network of its $1.5-million investment to online media outfit Rappler’s Filipino managers “a circumvention of the law,” Malacañang said.

The government is looking to expand the deployment ban on overseas Filipino workers, particularly household service workers, to other Middle East nations unless these countries can assure the protection of the workers’ rights and welfare.

Does the Philippines' ruling party, founded as a bastion for democracy and nationalism during a dictatorship, not see anything wrong with marking its anniversary by wining and dining officials of a foreign government that has been aggressively encroaching upon Philippine territory?

House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez has extended to six months the initial 45-day deadline for airline companies to transfer their domestic flights to Clark International Airport (CRK), in a bid to decongest the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).

Human rights group Karapatan is accusing the Duterte administration of allegedly using the Department of Justice in "churning out lies" against those perceived by the government as its enemies.

DICT and the NTC are now looking at a May 24 as deadline for bid submission, officials said in a public consultation in Quezon City on Tuesday, adding that they expect the final memorandum circular on selection criteria published on April 9.

The Office of the Solicitor General can start looking into the possibility of questioning before the Supreme Court the validity of the appointment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno based on her psychiatric test, according to Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.

A single card that allows shoppers to access various payment options from multiple accounts is being displayed at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.

A four-year presidential term with one re-election; 87 senators representing 12 states, a federal administrative region and overseas Filipinos; a prohibition on political dynasties; more stringent education qualifications for those seeking elective office; and deadlines for courts to hand down decisions.

Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled a strip of land on the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh after the two countries met to discuss resettling them, an official and a community leader said.

Two Canadians were sentenced to life imprisonment and fined P500,000 each after being found guilty of violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Whole villages were flattened and water sources spoiled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 20 people, residents said on Wednesday as rescuers struggled to reach the hardest-hit areas in Papua New Guinea’s remote, mountainous highlands.

The Philippine National Police has dismissed 398 personnel from the service for various offenses ranging from absence without leave to drugs to murder.

Communist rebels claimed to have successfully mounted two offensives in as many days in Quezon province’s Bondoc Peninsula and said they were investigating and verifying reports that civilians had been wounded in one of the attacks.

Ford Motor Co is taking a different approach from rival General Motors Co in deploying self-driving vehicles, focusing initially on partnering with and operating vehicles for a variety of companies, from Domino’s Pizza to Lyft.