Passed on second reading and with a ready appropriation of P2 billion in the proposed 2018 national budget, the National Identification System is practically upon us.

Japan’s labor market is getting so tight that companies are starting to convert contract and part-time workers into full-time, regular employees to prevent them from leaving -- a move that could lift wages and spending but squeeze profits.

A flood-hit southeast Texas city lost its drinking water supply and police and soldiers rescued thousands still stranded on Thursday after powerful storm Harvey killed 44 people and displaced more than a million on the Gulf Coast.

Three high-ranking military officials from the Obama administration on Thursday joined several transgender service members in urging a U.S. judge to halt President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.

HANOI -- Vietnam on Thursday opposed what it called a Chinese announcement of military exercises in the disputed South China Sea, disagreements over which...

An organizer of the activist party-list Bayan Muna in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental was gunned down Wednesday as he left the Department of Education office where he worked.

The Department of Public Works and Highways will undertake road reblocking and repairs in 11 road sections in Quezon, Caloocan and Pasig cities starting 11 p.m. Friday, September 1, until early Monday, September 4.

Colombia’s disarmed FARC rebel group is preserving its famous acronym as it becomes a civilian political party, part of its demobilization under a peace deal with the government to end more than 50 years of war.

The United States has told Russia to close its consulate in San Francisco and buildings in Washington and New York that house trade missions, the State Department said on Thursday, in retaliation for Moscow cutting the U.S. diplomatic presence in Russia.

Hollywood has been remaking films with all-female casts in recent years, including 'Ghostbusters' and upcoming 'Ocean’s Eight.'

Authorities seized 20 M16 assault rifles and arrested two suspected members of the New People’s Army during an operation in Kidapawan City early Friday morning.

The U.S. embassy in Manila and its affiliated offices will be closed on Monday, September 4, to observe Labor Day, which is an American holiday.

Officials of government, the military and Moro Islamic Liberation Front issued messages of peace as thousands of Muslims flocked to different venues for congregational prayer in Cotabato City to commemorate Eid’l Adha on Friday.

Sandra Bullock and Leonardo DiCaprio have both pledged to donate $1 million.

The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology put the prison population in the country, both those under trial and convicts, at 137,417 as of the end of June, up 22 percent since Duterte took office at the end of June last year.