A few months after President Rodrigo Duterte decided to fully restore the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and the United States, the two countries agreed to hold over 300 activities for the next year.

Political parties have until November 15 to substitute candidates for the 2022 elections.

A newly released vlog and a 2015 column on BusinessMirror claim it was under the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos that the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) was established.

The Air Force received the drones worth P20 million ($4 million) during a ceremony at the Clark Air Base in Pampanga on Wednesday.

"I don’t think it's fair and...rational, if I may say, to file with no intention to really go through with the campaign and the election proper."

A Spanish man accused of sexually abusing and taking videos of his acts with a 15-year-old Filipino girl, the same victim in the case against a former US diplomat, is set to be arraigned before a Taguig court on Friday.

Ambassador Huang Xilian said the additional supply of the Chinese-developed jabs are expected to arrive in the Philippines next week. 

"I just want to put on record I wasn't part of that IATF [meeting] that deliberated on this yesterday because I was in another budget hearing in the Senate," Duque told ANC's Headstart.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council recorded 30 fatalities, with 11 of these for verification, due to Severe Tropical Storm Maring that pounded northern Luzon.

The government's pandemic task force has approved the recommendation to place Metro Manila under Alert Level 3 from October 16 to 31.