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Saying they should participate as members of society, Marikina congressman and former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairman Bayani Fernando said subdivision residents should agree to open subdivision roads to regular traffic to improve mobility in Metro Manila.

The government will no longer impose safeguard measures, at least for the meantime, as it settles for cash assistance of about P3 billion for farmers affected by the Rice Tariffication law.

President Duterte and Indian President Ram Nath Kovind yesterday committed to strengthen ties in maritime cooperation, especially in their shared interests in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) is hedging on the proposal to detach its investigating arm, the Internal Affairs Service, from the organization.

Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has submitted his final list of contenders for Philippine National Police chief to President Duterte. Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has submitted his final list of contenders for Philippine National Police chief to President Duterte.

In line with his campaign against corruption, President Duterte said he fired Philippine National Oil Co. Exploration Corp. head Pedro Aquino Jr. for his role in a questionable deal with a Russian firm.

Tropical Storm Perla (international name Neoguri) is no longer expected to hit Northern Luzon as it was forecast to move east-northeast away from the country, the state weather bureau said yesterday.

Five groups yesterday claimed there is a “health crisis” in the Philippines given the cuts in the budget for health, understaffing of nurses and resurgence of infectious disease.?

With less than a week before his retirement, Supreme Court senior associate justice Antonio Carpio said his defense of the country’s interests in the West Philippine Sea will go beyond his decades-long stint in public service.

The proposed measure creating the country’s electronic health system has passed the first hurdle in the House of Representatives.

Chinese authorities in September detained a Japanese professor from Hokkaido University, it was learned on Friday from sources familiar with bilateral ties.The professor, who is in his 40s, was taken into custody in Beijing, with the authorities saying he “violated domestic laws”, indicating that he may have been suspected of spying, according to the sources.Since 2015, at least 13 Japanese citizens have been detained in China on various charges including espionage. All of them are civilians,…

Nearly 20 pro-Pyongyang South Korean students broke into the US ambassador’s residence in Seoul on Friday, displaying banners demanding Harry Harris leave the country in an embarrassing security breach.The students broke into the compound in the centre of the capital by climbing over the wall, pictures they posted on Facebook showed.One image showed a group standing on the veranda of a hanok – a traditional Korean house – holding up banners reading “Harris leave this land”, among others.They…