The Senate will open discussions anew on the proposed amendment or revision of the 1987 Constitution next Wednesday, January 17, after the House of Representatives finished deliberations on the P3.767-trillion national budget for 2018 and the new government tax program TRAIN.

Sounding certain on the emergence of a new Constitution and the shift to a federal government, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez called on his constituents in Davao del Norte's first district to give their all-out support for the initiative.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has cautioned the public about the risks of investing in virtual currency, after detecting that certain companies, individuals or groups of persons were luring the public, either through popular social media platforms or through their own independent website, to participate in so-called ICO and to purchase the corresponding virtual currency.

The Philippine and Japanese governments are on track to ink a deal for a new maintenance contract for the Metro Rail Transit-3 (MRT-3).

The Ombudsman has asked the antigraft court to return to jail ex-Palawan governor Joel Reyes, for a case separate from the murder of broadcaster-environmentalist Gerry Ortega: this time, for his graft case arising from the allegedly anomalous renewal of “small scale mining permits, and for which he was earlier convicted.

The Supreme Court en banc is consolidating two petitions opposing the one-year extension of martial law in Mindanao, and directed the respondents to submit comments on Jan. 13.

Filipina death row prisoner Mary Jane Veloso turned 33 on Wednesday, January 10, with her family relaying her plea for President Rodrigo Duterte to help her seek justice for what she maintains was her wrongful conviction for drug trafficking by Indonesia.

The Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) is releasing commemorative stamps to mark the 2017 Birth Centenary of six Filipino National Artists: Cesar Legaspi, Daisy Avellana, Jose Maceda, Leonor Orosa Goquingco, Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, and Nick Joaquin.

Retired Armed Forces chief Eduardo Año's assumption as officer-in-charge of the Department of Interior and Local Government gives him “a badge to kill and arrest more,” a human rights organization said Wednesday, January 10, during a protest at the agency’s Quezon City head office.

A U.S. judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday from ending a program that shielded from deportation children brought to the United States illegally by their parents.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck near remote Caribbean Islands belonging to Honduras on Tuesday, sparking a tsunami warning for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

An activist lawmaker urged the government not to make President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to increase the salaries of public school teachers incumbent on the passage of a new tax reform package even as Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno junked the notion as “not our priority this time.”

The couple mocked the columnist and radio host on Instagram but neither confirmed nor denied her report.

A jail officer died early Wednesday morning, January 10, as he waited to worship the Black Nazarene as this year’s Traslacion, the procession to return the religious icon to the Quiapo Church, was winding down.

Fifty-six residents of a village in Atok, Benguet were rushed to hospital during the first week of the year in what was initially suspected to be a case of mass food poisoning but which health officials later attributed to contaminated water used for cooking.