Eight soldiers were seriously wounded and one member of the New People's Army died in a gun battle early Thursday morning in Barangay Sanguit in this town in Nueva Vizcaya province.

US companies, from chip giant Qualcomm to aircraft maker Boeing, are announcing a slew of deals during US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing that could be valued as much as $250 billion. Some, though, have been long in the pipeline and many are non-binding.

The actress was a licensed pilot with the rank of airwoman second class sergeant.

The outsourcing industry in the Philippines, which has dethroned India as the country with the most call centers in the world, is worried that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will eat into the $23 billion sector.

A group of lawyers led by former Negros congressman Jacinto Paras and Manuel Luna are preparing to file charges of inciting to sedition and rebellion against Sen, Antonio Trillanes IV, in connection with his October 3, 2017 privileged speech where he claimed President Duterte had P2 billion in unexplained wealth. In the same speech, he virtually encouraged soldiers to kill the President because of corruption, the lawyers said.

Chinese electric vehicle startup Nio has raised more than $1 billion in its latest fundraising round, led by existing investor Tencent Holdings Ltd, valuing the firm at about $5 billion.

Talks on pushing ahead the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal without the United States reached a critical point on Thursday as ministers from the 11 countries discussed a proposed agreement in principle.

Infrastructure conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) on Wednesday reported a 22-percent surge in profit in the first three quarters on the strength of its expanded presence in the power industry. MPIC told the local bourse its consolidated core net income reached P11.3 billion in January to September from P9.3 billion in the same period last year.

Police authorities in Central Luzon captured Wednesday eight wanted persons in a series of manhunt operations against lawless elements with standing warrants of arrest in different courts in the region, a top official of the Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) announced Thursday.

The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would soon carry out the first exercise in a decade involving three aircraft carrier strike groups in the Western Pacific, confirming a Reuters report published on Monday.

Defense ministers of Association of Southeast Asian Nations member-states have voiced concern Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar may be recruited by terrorists and have urged the country to do more about the matter, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said.

Activists of the Bayan Muna party-list staged a lightning protest at Trump Tower demanding that U.S. President Donald Trump be banned from the country.

Fantastic beasts, wizard adventures and magic spells will come to life in a new “Harry Potter” augmented reality mobile game from Pokemon Go developer Niantic Inc and Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment.

(UPDATE 2 - 1:58 p.m.) U.S. President Donald Trump called on China to do more to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue and said bilateral trade had been unfair to the United States, while Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country would be more open to foreign firms.

(UPDATE - 11:06 a.m.) It will be business as usual for all but a handful of branches of BDO and Security Bank in the National Capital Region and outlying provinces from Monday to Wednesday, November 13 to 15, which have been declared special non-working days for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit.