Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales has affirmed the finding of probable cause to charge former President Benigno Aquino III before the Sandiganbayan for the 2015 Mamasapano tragedy, where 44 members of the police Special Action Force on a mission to get a Malaysian terrorist were instead killed in a clash with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Maguindanao.

The Philippines has remained among East Asia and the Pacific’s top 10 economies in terms of human resource development, according to an annual report of the World Economic Forum that nevertheless showed the country slipping in regional and global ranking, weighed down by challenges in skills application and accumulation through work.

Had Obello Bay-ao not gone home to Talaingod, Davao del Norte to help with the farming, the Grade 7 student of the Salugpongan Tu Tano Igkanogon-Community Learning Center Inc., a lumad school, might well be alive still, his cousin Rorilyn Mandacawan said.

The second edition of the Great Lean Run gets under way this Saturday, Sept 16. Last year, participants crawled through mud under barbed wire, got bombarded by water cannons, and ran away from "Metrocom police" and "paramilitary groups". All while hearing chants and songs which activists used during the Marcos era.

DOJ opened the preliminary investigation of the murder and torture of 17-year old student Kian Lloyd de los Santos, with lawyers for four cop-respondents clashing with the chief public attorney over the inclusion in criminal charges of policemen who just happened to be at the Caloocan police station when the schoolboy was murdered, but had no role in the anti-drug sweep on the night of Aug. 17.

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(UPDATE 2 - 2:34 p.m.) It was a break-up waiting to happen. Following "one disappointment happening after another," the seven lawmakers of the Makabayan bloc finally bolted from the majority in the House of Representatives.

The Senate finance committee approved the more than P195-billion proposed 2018 budget for the Department of National Defense but Senator Antonio Trillanes IV wants P500 million from the police anti-drug “Oplan Double Barrel” realigned to augment the military’s intelligence funds.

The House of Representatives will not allow itself to be dictated to by the Senate on the matter of the 2018 budget of the Commission on Human Rights, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said.

Senator Risa Hontiveros accused Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II of “squid tactics” and dared him to make good on this threat to sue her for exposing what she said was an alleged plot involving the Cabinet official to file charges against her.

An alliance of indigenous people’s organizations in the Cordillera region is not satisfied with the P1,000 budget granted by the House of Representatives to the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and wants the agency abolished altogether.

Discover the best Philippine culinary books at the country's longest running book fair.

A fire at an Islamic boarding school killed at least 25 people, most of them students, in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur after breaking out in a dormitory early on Thursday morning, officials said.

North Korea displayed trademark defiance on Wednesday over new United Nations sanctions imposed after its sixth and largest-ever nuclear test, vowing to redouble efforts to fight off what it said was the threat of a U.S. invasion.

Aside from the members of the House of Representatives who voted for or against the P1,000 budget for the Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday, Netizens also took to task lawmakers who were absent during the vote.