In case you haven't heard yet, the force is really strong on this one.

Cash remittances recovered in October to a two-month high, the central bank reported on Friday, as overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) took advantage of a weaker peso to get more out of their funds.

A North Korean soldier who suffered critical gunshot wounds during a defection dash across the border to South Korea has been transferred to a military hospital, a South Korean intelligence official said on Saturday.

Maynilad Water Services Inc. will be increasing its basic rate by P0.97 per cubic meter in January.

Sombath Somphone of Laos, a 2005 recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, often called “Asia’s Nobel Prize,” disappeared the night of December 15, 2012. He remains missing to this day.

An ingredient in cannabis called cannabidiol or CBD has shown promise in a clinical trial as a potential new treatment for psychosis, scientists said on Friday.

(UPDATE - 10:54 a.m.) Canadian police said they were investigating the mysterious deaths of the billionaire founder of Canadian pharmaceutical firm Apotex Inc, Barry Sherman, and his wife, Honey, who were found dead in their Toronto mansion on Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday that the United States was demanding “the immediate release” of two Reuters reporters arrested in Myanmar “or information as to the circumstances around their disappearance.”

'Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson said he was told by Miramax that Judd and Sorvino were 'a nightmare to work with.'

Markle, 36, will be baptized and confirmed into the Church of England before the wedding. She intends to become a British citizen.

The ratified TRAIN bill is set to be signed into law by the President next week. We continue to hope that the President will strike out provisions that will be damaging to our tax system and, ultimately, the Filipino people.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged North Korea on Friday to carry out a “sustained cessation” of weapons testing to allow the two countries to hold talks about Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs. But U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said did not believe its intercontinental ballistic missile posed an imminent threat to the United States.

Burning issues such as Metro Manila's unsolved traffic problems, human rights, and the violent war on drugs stood out in this year's event.

The Bureau of Customs said it had seized more than half a billion pesos’ worth of fake products, reportedly from China, from a Pasay City warehouse.

(UPDATE 3 - 1:48 p.m.) Tropical storm “Urduja” intensified and accelerated Saturday morning, December 16, as it headed towards its expected landfall in the Northern Samar-Eastern Samar area in the afternoon.