Filipino nurses urgently need government action on fair wages, increased staffing, and regularization of contract positions, an organization said on Sunday in commemoration of International Nurses Day.

DENR Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga said the agency is “committed” to exploring the “possibility” of parallel processing of various mining permits, doing away with the current systems of sequential approval.

Michael Yang, an economic adviser of former President Rodrigo Duterte, will be invited by the House of Representatives to the next hearing in connection with the P3 billion drug bust in Mexico, Pampanga in 2023.

The Philippine Air Force said Balikatan 2024 has helped them prepare for the country’s first ever deployment of aircraft and personnel to an international military exercise. 

While still early, the Philippines should stop the reclamation by China of Sabina Shoal and Pag-asa Cay, according to retired Supreme Court associate justice Antonio Carpio on Sunday.

The Inter-Agency Committee on Foreign Students (IACFS) will meet on Monday to discuss the increase in Chinese nationals studying in the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Sunday.

There were no winners of either of the big lotto draws held on Sunday, May 12.

The House of Representatives will start plenary deliberations today on the committee approved measure amending certain provisions of the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) for purposes of bringing down the price of rice in the retail market.

The Department of Agriculture is eyeing a collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to include eggs in its disaster relief packs as a way of helping producers and promoting nutrition, a ranking DA official revealed.

A producers’ group yesterday underscored the need to import 200,000 metric tons (MT) of sugar to prevent shortage in supply as it confirmed that sugarcane plantations in Negros have been severely damaged by El Niño.

Filipino farmers’ income has increased by 20 percent as a result of World Bank-funded projects under the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), with the country receiving a satisfactory rating on the implementation of the $600 million loan project.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is still doing post-qualification evaluation and has yet to award a contract for the online voting and counting system (OVCS) for overseas voting in the May 2025 midterm elections.

MANILA, Philippines — One of the four bidders for the P465-million online voting and counting system for overseas voting in the 2025 elections is seeking a reconsideration of the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) decision to disqualify it.

MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker has proposed criminalizing the inducement or coercion of another person to commit perjury or lie under oath.

MANILA, Philippines — The controversial National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) welcomed on Sunday the Supreme Court’s landmark decision recognizing red-tagging as a real threat to the lives and civil liberties of Filipinos.

SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur,  Philippines — A mudslide triggered by the collapse of a portion of a tailings storage facility of Greenstone Resources Corp. (GRC) buried houses in the mining village of Siana, Mainit town in Surigao del Norte, at around 5…

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has issued Administrative Order No. 22 creating what the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) described as an interagency “super body” tasked to “enhance [government] mechanisms for the promotion and…

China is sending a “huge force” allegedly to seal off Scarborough Shoal ahead of the Philippines’ civilian mission to the area, a United States maritime expert said on Monday. 

The Luzon Grid will be placed under yellow alert status on Monday afternoon, May 13, 2024, as 20 plants remain on forced outage, according to the NGCP.

Amnesty International Philippines criticized the newly-formed special committee on human rights coordination as an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy as it urged the Marcos government to prioritize genuine solutions to the country's human rights issues.

Some local government units have suspended face-to-face classes due to the threat of hot weather.