An Amtrak passenger train that was diverted onto a side track slammed into a parked freight train in South Carolina on Sunday, killing two crew members and injuring at least 116 others in the railroad’s third fatal crash in as many months.

Following President Rodrigo Duterte’s challenge to Congress to investigate his alleged ill-gotten wealth, Senator Antonio “Sonny” F. Trillanes IV will file a resolution on Monday to formally ask the Senate to start the said investigation.

The CA upheld its earlier decision affirming the order by the Office of the Ombudsman finding former MRTA general manager Al Vitangcol III administratively liable for attempting to extort USD30 million from Inekon, a Czech company engaged in the supply of light rail vehicles (LRVs), and for attempting to impose a partnership on the same firm.

Listed healthcare company Philab Holdings Corp. has earmarked USD150 million for capital spending this year, mostly to build new satellite clinics.

An airplane crashed off the coast of Sitio Landing, Barangay New Agutaya in the northern Palawan town of San Vicente on Sunday afternoon.

The shortage of NFA rice is real and the inter-agency National Food Authority Council should be acting decisively to address the dwindling supply of NFA rice, Senator Nancy Binay said Sunday.

Armed officers patrol a train station where television screens and giant posters warn of the threat from militants. Nearby, fake gunmen storm a shopping mall in one of many recent terror attack simulations.

A tribal leader of the Langilang-Manobo tribe and his son were shot dead by armed men inside their home in Barangay Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte on Sunday dawn.

COURAGE president Ferdinand Gaite said it's the first time NFA personnel were required to fill up such forms. Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said the form “is, in essence, conscription to military service, either as part of the military’s reserve force or its auxiliary. This takes militarization of the civilian bureaucracy to a whole new level.”

Ex-DSWD secretary Judy Taguiwalo joined the ‘Cha-cha laban sa Cha-cha’, a dance protest against Charter change at the UP Sunken Garden on Saturday (February 3) morning. With her were political prisoners, human rights advocates, martial law veterans, and progressive organizations headed by Karapatan and Selda - mostly in their senior years, having been witness - and for most, victims - to some of the country's darkest years including martial law.

Even as large and family-run companies dominate the Philippine business landscape and small enterprises face high barriers of entry, anti-trust rules should not necessarily “protect” the latter, industry experts said on Friday.

Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Saturday demanded that Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stocks Co., which supplied 48 light rail coaches for P3.8 billion to the MRT-3, refund the government for the full cost of the contract.

Karapatan is appealing to the public for help in finding Benjamin Clamor, father of the human rights group's deputy secretary general Jigs Clamor.

Britain will use new powers to seize the assets of foreign criminals and corrupt politicians, The Times newspaper reported on Saturday quoting the security minister.

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. on Saturday clarified President Rodrigo Duterte's remarks to kick out protesting students of the University of the Philippines (UP) and replace them with bright lumad students. Roque said it didn't mean the President wanted to curtail their freedom of expression.