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The proposed 2020 national budget, tax and trade reforms, and return of the death penalty are among the administration measures President Duterte hopes the 18th Congress will swiftly pass.

Leyte’s Provincial Board has placed the province under a state of calamity as dengue fever has killed six children and hospitalized 1,747 people since January.

KYOTO, Japan - Most of the victims of an arson attack on an animation studio in the western Japanese city of Kyoto were in their 20s and 30s, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday, as the death toll climbed to 34.

NEW ORLEANS — A pocket-sized pocket shark found in the Gulf of Mexico has turned out to be a new species.

An elderly South Korean man died on Friday after setting himself on fire outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul as a bitter diplomatic dispute over wartime forced labour compensation took a fatal turn.

Two Filipinos were reported missing since Wednesday after they were allegedly swept during a heavy storm in Phuket, Thailand.

JOHANNESBURG - Former South African president Jacob Zuma was due back at a public inquiry into state corruption on Friday, after his lawyers requested an adjournment because they said he was being questioned unfairly.

TOKYO — A man screaming "You die!" burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire Thursday, killing 33 people in an attack that shocked the country and brought an outpouring of grief from anime fans.

CEBU CITY – Eight elementary school students and a 40-year-old woman were killed after the mini dump truck they were riding overturned in Boljoon town, southern Cebu.

The National Food Authority (NFA) was left with one job since the Rice Tariffication Law was passed in March and is now ready to fulfill that as the first strong typhoon to hit some parts of the Philippines this year arrived.

Thousands of workers from different labor centers under the banner of the “United Workers’ SONA” will march on July 22 to condemn what they called Duterte’s anti-worker government and also assert their demands for regular jobs, living wages, and respect for labor and human rights.

Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. advised on Thursday the Philippine government to not pay too much attention to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) adopted resolution that seeks to probe the human rights situation in the country.

DETROIT — The heatwave that has been roasting much of the US in recent days is just getting warmed up, with temperatures expected to soar to dangerous levels through the weekend.