Health authorities on Thursday reported 4,806 more COVID-19 infections, bringing the national caseload to 2,740,111.

The Department of Justice will focus on Philippine National Police deadly “war on drugs” operations in certain urban areas in its continuing review of the Duterte administration’s bloody anti-narcotics campaign, an official of the agency said.

Last October 6, mobile users received text messages cheering on a presidential aspirant who had just filed his candidacy.

"If this number continues to decline, it is very possible that we can be deescalated in the coming weeks."

"There is probably no need to make another demand for more cases to be examined because the DOJ will continue [its review]," presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in Filipino at a briefing Thursday morning. 

China hopes for better relations with Filipinos, its ambassador to the Philippines said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Chinese Embassy where former Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. was a guest.

The Bureau of Immigration warned aspiring overseas Filipino workers against a new scheme by illegal recruiters that provide them with fake documents.

Incentives intended to encourage more Filipinos to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are now being studied by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

A firm allegedly owned by the state of China, which bagged over P2 billion in contracts to supply personal protective equipment to the Philippines, as well other companies that fail to pay taxes should be banned from doing business in the country, ac...

A total of 329 areas around the country have been deemed by the Department of Health as places where K-12 schools may reopen for in-person classes even in the middle of the pandemic, the Senate was informed yesterday.