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Over P6 million worth of shabu inside paper bags were seized from four suspected drug peddlers in Makati City during a buy-bust operation, Tuesday night, January 19.

The Quezon City government announced Tuesday that four new areas have been placed under special-concern lockdown following an increase in COVID-19 cases after the holiday season.

The House of Representatives passed on final reading the “Bating Filipino” bill proposing to institutionalize a new gesture of greeting and friendship that may be part of the public health and safety protocols as the country continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fourteen new confirmed COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) cases and two new recoveries among Filipinos in Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa were recorded in the latest tally of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

The House of Representatives approved on Monday a 10-year extension of the implementation of lifeline rates for low income electricity consumers.

The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading a bill expanding the Solo Parents Welfare Act of 2000 granting additional benefits for solo parents and their children.

Health frontliners should be given the “best” and most effective COVID-19 vaccines to kickstart and boost public confidence in the government’s coronavirus immunization program, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said Tuesday.

Opposition Senator Francis ‘’Kiko’’Pangilinan on Tuesday filed a Senate resolution expressing the sense of the Senate to oppose the unilateral termination of the 1989 University of the Philippines (UP)-Department of National Defense (DND) accord and to urge UP and DND to commence a dialogue and find a common ground that promotes peace and security, and protects academic freedom, and the pursuit of excellence in the University. 

Lawmakers on Monday insisted that a wrongdoing has indeed been committed in the way the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) handled the  loans made by the owners of the ABS-CBN broadcast station that resulted in P1.6 billion in losses absorbed by government.

A new bypass road leading to the Our Lady of Guibang Shrine in Gamu, Isabela was recently completed, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced.

The San Juan City government Tuesday launched two new handwashing facilities to help strengthen the city’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic.  

The Department of Education (DepEd) expressed gratitude to President Duterte for the “speedy approval” of the release of P20-million fund to strengthen the initiatives to equip students with fundamental literacy and numeracy skills.

A militant fisherfolk group on Tuesday said Defense chief Delfin Lorenzana should deploy troops in the disputed West Philippine Sea and not in the University of the Philippines.