Central Mindanao commemorates the Shariff Kabunsuan Festival every December 19, a non-working holiday.

Twelve members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters , five of them bomb makers, surrendered on Friday.

Four New People’s Army rebels were killed in an encounter with government troopers in Barangay Naocondiot in Placer, Masbate on Friday.

The killing of two siblings in this town on Friday last week has been considered solved after police said a family member admitted to committing the crime.

Around 10 kilos of shabu with an estimated street value of P68 million were confiscated in a sting in San Pedro City on Friday night.

There is no total ban on firecrackers during the Yuletide season.

Daily tourist arrivals in this city have reached nearly 6,000, the average number of visitors before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Metro Rail Transit Line 3 recorded carrying 200,647 passengers on Friday since the government increased the capacity of mass transport amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The fifth most wanted drug suspect in Metro Manila was arrested in Pasig City on Friday.

Two persoms were injured in a fire that broke out at a house in Parañaque yesterday morning.