The Supreme Court en banc, except for Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno "who is recused," has allowed Associate Justice Teresita De Castro to testify at the hearing being conducted by the House Committee on Justice on the impeachment complaint against Sereno.

Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez advised senators to “relax” and wait for the impeachment case against Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to be transmitted to the Senate for trial instead of commenting on the proceedings in the House of Representatives.

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II revealed claimed Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno asked him to "tone down" his concerns for the safety of judges and prosecutors when he sought to transfer the Maute cases outside of Mindanao.

Indonesia’s transportation ministry said on Tuesday it will extend the closure of Bali’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport for a further 24 hours because of ash from the eruption of the island’s Mount Agung volcano.

With Joey de Leon in the cast, Paolo Ballesteros admits feeling a lot of pressure in portraying the iconic role.

The House of Representatives sees no need for a special session to tackle the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law but assured President Rodrigo Duterte the chamber would finish work on the bill before Congress adjourns on March 21.

Japan has detected radio signals suggesting North Korea may be preparing for another ballistic missile launch, although such signals are not unusual and satellite images did not show fresh activity, a Japanese government source said on Tuesday.

The Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals shine the bright light of hope on the otherwise hopeless condition of babies born with chronic liver failure.

“Unending brutal attacks” by government troops, sanctioned by President Rodrigo Duterte, may well drive farmers into taking up arms and joining communist rebels, an activist peasant organization warned Tuesday, November 28.

Facebook Inc. will expand its pattern recognition software to other countries after successful tests in the U.S. to detect users with suicidal intent, the world’s largest social media network said on Monday.

A human rights group said President Rodrigo Duterte’s latest tirades against United Nations special rapporteur Agnes Callamard, including a threat to “slap” her, were not just “deplorable and undiplomatic” but also “dangerous acts undermining international human rights mechanisms.”

A breakthrough in U.N.-backed Syria peace talks in Geneva this week seems hardly more likely than in seven failed earlier rounds as President Bashar al-Assad pushes for total military victory and his opponents stick by their demand he leave power.

Eleven men -- mostly professionals -- were arrested by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency at an upscale hotel in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City where they had gathered for an alleged drug party on Sunday morning.

President Donald Trump said there was a “Pocahontas” in the U.S. Congress during a meeting on Monday with Native American World War Two veterans in an apparent derogatory reference to Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

An organization of cancer survivors welcomed the implementation of an 11-year old U.S. federal court order compelling tobacco firms to tell the truth about the dangers of smoking and hope this prods Philippine officials to “implement policies that will protect public health.”