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KIDAPAWAN CITY -- At least 12 establishments here, including boarding houses, were razed to the ground when a fire broke out at past 2 a.m. Friday.

A Chinese defector involved in spying operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia has provided a trove of intelligence on China's political interference operations to Australian officials, according to a media report Saturday.

Niger, a landlocked former French colony in the Sahel, plans to change its national anthem, six decades after the country became independent.

Iloilo City - Left-leaning activists from Bayan Panay on Friday led a picket outside Camp Delgado to protest against a memorandum order released a year ago that targets activists mostly in Western Visayas.

Several sections of roads in Metro Manila will undergo concrete reblocking over the weekend, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced on Friday.

BCB Blockchain, a Singapore-based technology firm, announced on Wednesday that it will be supporting incubators and startup accelerators under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) through a P15 million fund.

Hundreds of thousands of Colombians took to the streets of the capital Bogota on Thursday amid a general strike to protest the policies of President Ivan Duque’s right-wing government.

BRP Jose Rizal (FF-150), the Philippine Navy's (PN) first-ever guided-missile frigate, is set to conduct its initial sea trials beginning on November 23 - 27 in South Korea.

BEIJING – China on Friday accused the US of “provocative” conduct after two US warships sailed near islands claimed by Beijing this week, adding to tensions between the global powers.

The House Committee on Disaster Management is flexing its muscles to pass a bill seeking the establishment of evacuation centers in the country.

Corruption in government has long been a problem for countless administrations.

Some 81.4 grams of suspected shabu (methamphetamine) worth half a million pesos was seized in separate anti-illegal drug operations in Caloocan and Navotas City Thursday and Friday.

Lumad students from Mindanao and various environmental children advocates have formed a human formation of a tree in Quezon City to uphold climate justice.

CEBU CITY – A police official was gunned down while he and his wife were walking along a road in an uptown area here on Thursday afternoon.

Police apprehended a 21-year-old young man in Lucena, Quezon on Thursday night for allegedly using vape in a public place in what could be one of the first, if not the earliest, case of electronic cigarette-related arrest following President Duterte's verbal order.

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the government remains committed to promoting the safety and welfare of the overseas Filipino workers.

The Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) has autopsied 149 persons who died after receiving shots of the still experimental anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia.

CWS partylist Rep. Romeo Momo Sr. has batted for the passage of a bill seeking to require all new subdivisions, condominium communities, malls, government institutions, central business districts, and information technology parks in the country to construct their own rain harvesting facilities to preempt floods.