THE PHILIPPINES’ top health official should step down if he fails to uphold the commitment to make healthcare affordable for Filipinos, a congressman said on Thursday, urging the Department of Health ...

PHILIPPINE President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. pressed Southeast Asian leaders and China at a regional summit on Thursday to urgently speed up negotiations on a code of conduct for the South China Sea, ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Thursday said Southeast Asian leaders were exploring new strategies including informal talks to address the political crisis in junta-led Myanmar. While a ...

OVER 400 Philippine applications for repatriation from war-torn Lebanon have yet to be processed by authorities there, according to Manila, as Israel continued to launch airstrikes on its Middle ...

THE DEPARTMENT of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is planning on issuing at least 4,211 mining permits and contracts next year, with its focus on securing more deals on smart mining, ...

A CONGRESSMAN on Thursday pushed to lodge an additional P10 billion under the National Electrification Administration’s (NEA) 2025 budget to boost nationwide rural electrification efforts. The NEA ...

A drug peddler who had eluded five entrapment was nabbed in an operation led by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12 and the police in Barangay Perez in Kidapawan City on Wednesday. Aileen T.

A SENATOR on Tuesday said construction costs of the new Senate building in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City have ballooned to P31 billion from P8.6 billion, updating a previous estimate of P27 billion. “We ...

THE Philippines’ anti-graft court has acquitted ex-Zamboanga del Sur Governor Aurora E. Cerilles and nine other provincial officials accused of corruption for allegedly conspiring with a private ...

THE Commission on Human Rights (CHR) expressed its support for House Bill No. 9997, a proposal aimed at reducing road traffic-related accidents by incorporating road safety education into the ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. solicited potential investors in the Philippines’ chemical industry, particularly projects involving materials needed for the green transition.  “One of the largest ...

PHILIPPINE STOCKS continued to drop on Thursday as investors booked gains, and as markets grew more confident about a patient approach by the US Federal Reserve to further monetary easing.