An official from the Department of Health (DOH) on Friday said that the Philippine production of instant noodles from the "Lucky Me!" brand is not affected amid product recalls from four countries.

Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the alert level system was discussed during the department’s meeting with Marcos.

“He has a slight fever, but he is otherwise okay. Those in close contact with him are currently being informed by the Presidential Management Staff to observe their symptoms,” Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said in a briefing.

The Court of Appeals has denied Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and a former staffer’s appeal against their cyber libel conviction stemming from a 2012 article on businessman Wilfredo Keng’s links to former Chief Justice Renato Corona.

The Commission on Audit (COA) has flagged the University of the Philippines System (UPS) over the non-utilization of funds for three COVID-19-related research projects amounting to P53.9 million.

"Her claims are utterly baseless and completely false, and worse, encourage the harassment of our staff members, volunteers, and partners," Angat Pinas, Inc. executive director Raffy Magno said in a statement. 

“It’s unfortunate that the NTF-ELCAC has that reputation, but the ELCAC is more than the issue of red-tagging. So if there’s anything that should be stopped, it’s the red-tagging,” he said in mixed Filipino and English.

Vice President Sara Duterte, who is also serving as the head of the Education department, should lead a multi-agency probe into the abuse allegations brought up by former students of the state-run high school for young artists, a child rights group s...

In a landmark ruling, Britain’s highest court ruled that a Saudi Arabian diplomat may face charges for breaching the contract of Filipino domestic worker Josephine Wong and for being complicit in a modern slavery case.

Bulatat said the NTC memorandm is ultra vires (beyond legal power of authority) as it stressed that nothing in the EO that created the NTC and RA 7925 or the Public Telecommunications Policy Act of the Philippines “clothes the NTC with the power to...