Tropical Depression Ester, which is being enhanced by the southwest monsoon or habagat, will continue to bring rains over Metro Manila and other areas, state weather bureau PAGASA said Saturday.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appointed Filipino businessman Jose “Jerry” Acuzar as the new head of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council.

Malacañang is set to submit to Congress on Aug. 22 the proposed 2023 national budget, which is unlikely to be higher than this year’s P5.024-trillion outlay, Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said yesterday.

The Department of Health has questioned why the private sector did not make use of its COVID vaccines to boost all eligible economic frontliners, thereby avoiding vaccine wastage.

Senators pressing for the creation of a department of disaster management and resilience are willing to support a bill downgrading it to an agency under the Office of the President as long as it would address the unresponsiveness of the current setup...

The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino will not oppose the proposed use of both Filipino and English as the main medium of instruction in schools.

China again slammed the United States for trying to “stir up trouble and drive a wedge” between countries using the South China Sea dispute for its own political gain. 

The Phivolcs has so far recorded 1,071 aftershocks two days after a shallow magnitude-7 earthquake hit Abra, which killed 6 and injured 116 others.

The infected person is a 31-year-old Filipino who arrived from overseas on July 19.

The family of slain ex-Lamitan mayor Rosie Furigay said they were "shocked and saddened" by the killing of Rolando Yumol, the father of Chao Tiao-Yumol who was behind the Ateneo shooting that claimed three lives including Furigay.