The House of Representatives passed on third and final reading Friday, September 8, two controversial bills -- House Bill No. 6221 creating the Filipino Identification System or FilSys, also known as the National ID system, and House Bill No. 5828 allowing foreigners to own public utilities.”

Resigned Customs commissioner Nicanor Faeldon, declared in contempt by the Senate, vowed to show up at the chamber on Monday, not to participate in the inquiry into the smuggling of drugs into the country but, to be arrested.

Twice this week alone, plenary deliberations on the CHR’s budget have been deferred. In the background, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez had earlier threatened to give the Constitutional body a zero budget.

When so many are killed, the exception becomes the norm. Even if one child is murdered by the state, we should raise the fury of hell! In the face of murders of the innocent, our silence becomes the normal state of affairs. We become numb and indifferent to injustice, and murder becomes a way of life.

Efforts to stamp out drugs “should shift (into) high gear by focusing on the sourced drug shipments, whether in raw or finished product forms, which, from all indications come from China, and prevent them from reaching our shores,” Senator Joseph Victor Ejercito said Friday.

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(UPDATE - 10:21 a.m.) Residents of the Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday hunkered down for Hurricane Irma, which has smashed through a string of Caribbean islands as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, killing at least 14 people en route to Florida.

The alcohol industry uses denial, distortion and distraction to mislead people about the risks of developing cancer from drinking, often employing similar tactics to those of the tobacco industry, a study said on Thursday.

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The remix of the 1987 solo track was broadcast on Britain’s BBC radio and released online on Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s eldest son told Senate investigators on Thursday that he had set up a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer because she might have had damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

A U.S. government watchdog said on Thursday that more than a third of U.S. Navy ships based out of Japan had expired warfare training certifications, as lawmakers raised concerns about readiness after a series of collisions involving the Navy this year.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday her government was doing its best to protect everyone in the strife-torn state of Rakhine, as the estimated number of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh leapt by 18,000 in one day, to 164,000.

She received the award at the ContentAsia Summit 2017 in Singapore on Thursday.

Capas Mayor Reynaldo Catacutan vowed on Thursday not to lower his guard against the drug syndicate he said have been wreaking havoc in his town as he presided over the “graduation” of 453 drug victims from a program to wean them away, which included six months of community service.