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Mongolia’s President Battulga Khaltmaa and other government officials have submitted to a 14-day quarantine after returning home from their visit to China, the state news agency Montsame reported on Friday.

A Chinese man was gunned down while his wife was injured during a shooting incident involving three other men inside the VIP room of a restaurant in Makati City, Thursday night.

The more than 400 Filipino crew members of the M/V Diamond Princess cruise ship should complete their 14-day quarantine period at the New Clark City in Tarlac.

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan - The Puerto Princesa City council is deliberating on an ordinance, which will require all vehicles to yield to all pedestrians crossing on the highway.

President Duterte has declared the second week of February of every year as "National Hazing Prevention Week," stressing that it is the policy of the State to value the dignity of every person and to guarantee full respect for human rights.

The UN Security Council on Thursday declared that it would adopt humanitarian exemptions to the heavy economic sanctions imposed on North Korea to help the impoverished country fight the novel coronavirus, Germany's ambassador to the UN said.

The coronavirus epidemic in Iran has cost 26 lives, the health ministry announced Thursday, with a vice president becoming the latest top official to be infected as the spread appeared to accelerate.

At least 18 people were killed and dozens more injured when a passenger train rammed into a bus on Friday in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, officials said.

ISTANBUL - Hundreds of migrants in Turkey started arriving on the borders with Greece and Bulgaria on Friday after a senior Turkish official said Ankara would no longer abide by a 2016 EU deal and stop refugees from reaching Europe.

Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go disclosed Friday that children suffering from various liver diseases would no longer need to go abroad for liver transplant after a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to perform the procedure in the country was signed in Malacañang last February 26.

Senator Richard J. Gordon on Friday urged the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) to look into the reported influx of an estimated $180 million (P9.2 billion) into the country through gambling casinos and other financial outlets.

ANKARA - NATO ambassadors will meet in Brussels at Turkey’s request on Friday to hold consultations about developments in Syria, the alliance said after the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in a Syrian air strike in the Idlib region.

Recovered coronavirus patients who were discharged from hospitalization but later tested positive again have been found not to be infectious, an official at China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said on Friday.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to rule on the criminal complaint filed against those accused of game-fixing at the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball Association (MPBL).

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the Soccsksargen (South Cotabato-Cotabato-Sultan Kudarat-Sarangani and General Santos City) Region and police personnel from Makilala in North Cotabato arrested a former soldier in an anti-drug search operations in a village in Makilala town, around 2:30 a.m., on Friday, a police official said.

LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte – The provincial government of Ilocos Norte will mark the start of Women’s Month on March 2 with a parade of the capitol’s male employees wearing high-heeled shoes, according to Janet London, the provincial population program officer.

DAVAO CITY - Operatives of Toril Police Station here seized illegal drugs worth P450,000 from a construction worker in a buy-bust operation they conducted on Thursday night.

Senate minority leader Senator Franklin Drilon on Friday questioned the apparent haste in closing down ABS-CBN Corporation, lamenting the lack of concern of some sectors in the more than 11,000 employees that would be hurt in the event its franchise is not renewed.