The Lanao del Sur provincial government is training detainees how to fabricate the iconic Maranao “baor” for them to earn while incarcerated.

Cainta is ending negotiations with a Chinese vaccine supplier, its mayor said Friday, after residents of the Rizal town aired on social media their opposition toward getting coronavirus shots from Beijing.

State seismologists are not expecting any damage or aftershocks from the quake, which was “scarcely perceptible” in Calatagan, Puerto Galera in Oriental Mindoro, and Plaridel in Bulacan, according to PHIVOLCS.

A lawyer was gunned down by motorcycle-riding assailants in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon on Thursday.

Suspected members of the Maute group shot dead three soldiers and their civilian companion in a gun attack in Poona Piagapo town on Thursday.

The municipality of EB Magalona in Negros Occidental has declared a state of calamity due to flashfloods spawned by heavy rains on Jan. 9.

The tail-end of a frontal system will continue to bring rains over Bicol provinces this weekend, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said yesterday.

The hard lockdown in Guiuan, Eastern Samar has been extended for another 14 days as more coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 cases were recorded.

A court in Jolo, Sulu has issued arrest warrants for nine police officers accused of killing four Army intelligence officers last year.

Four members of the Olongapo City police drug enforcement unit were among five persons arrested during a raid on a kitchen-type shabu laboratory in a two-story house at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone yesterday.