The Department of Finance (DoF) hopes to secure midyear approval by the House of Representatives of the second tax reform package in order to start enforcement in January 2019, even as the head of the committee that will shepherd the measure through the chamber said it would be “difficult” to stick to such a timetable.

Qualcomm Technologies Inc has signed memorandums of understanding for sales worth at least $2 billion with top Chinese smartphone vendors.

(UPDATE - 1:44 p.m.) Commissioner Prospero “Popoy” de Vera III has been named officer-in-charge of the Commission on Higher Education.

The YouTube sensation a.k.a. Suklay Diva delivers a rousing version of the Oscar-nominated song.

President Rodrigo Duterte’s is reportedly “on the radar of the Islamic State” because of his repeated vows to wipe out extremist groups linked to the terror organization, a newspaper in India, where he is visiting, said.

U.N. human rights experts called on the Philippines government on Thursday to allow independent news website Rappler to operate, voicing concern at rising rhetoric against voices critical of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Scientists on Thursday moved ahead by half a minute the symbolic Doomsday Clock, saying the world was at its closest to annihilation since the height of the Cold War due to world leaders’ poor response to threats of nuclear war.

The Department of Energy-Visayas Field Office assured that there is sufficient electricity in the Visayas for the region’s needs.

'We appreciate the decision to keep the focus on the show and on the great work of this year,' the academy spokeswoman said.

(UPDATE 2 - 2:06 p.m.) A fire in a South Korean hospital killed 41 people and injured more than 70, officials said on Friday, with eight of those injured listed as being in critical condition.

Anti-narcotics agents seized more than P34 million worth of crystal meth, or shabu, shipped from the United States during a “controlled delivery operation” in Trece Martirez, Cavite Wednesday, January 24, and arrested two suspects who received the contraband.

'It’s not something that interests me... It's not for me,' she told InStyle in an interview published Thursday.

North Korea shipped coal to Russia last year which was then delivered to South Korea and Japan in a likely violation of U.N. sanctions, three Western European intelligence sources said.

Two Cameroonian nationals fell for an entrapment operation sprung by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in what has been called the Black Dollar...

The water table of deep wells in the vicinity of the crater of Mt. Mayon, the volcano currently in hyperactive state, are starting to...