The man touted to be the next Senate President on Thursday announced that outgoing Sen. Manny Villar had assured him of the continued support of the Nacionalista Party (NP).
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Thursday rebutted the so-called “60-30-10” theory, saying he was willing to have all the ballot boxes in the country opened to show that there was no fraud.
Two men who bore bullet wounds in the head and chest were found dead in Barangay (village) Sta. Ana Elena, San Pascual, Batangas on Thursday morning.
One of the two alleged killers of a British soldier on a London street tried to explain his actions in an amateur video filmed by a passer-by, even as he still clutched a bloody kitchen knife and a meat cleaver.
Maritime schools that continue to defy government orders to close down substandard training programs are putting all Filipino seafarers in danger of being banned from European Union (EU) member flagged vessels.
A fire razed the Department of Agriculture (DA) region 10 field office in Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Thursday afternoon.
The National Capital Region Police Office should look into the particular reasons why the debts for the water supply of the Manila Police District grew to millions to the point that it was cut off by its utility service provider, a Philippine National Police spokesman said.
The body of a still unidentified woman was dumped into a cliff by two men early Thursday along the Transcentral Highway in Balamban town, about 64 kilometers west of this city.
“Toby” Tañada Jr. has contested his defeat as the representative of Quezon’s fourth district, asking the Commission on Elections to credit to him the votes cast for a disqualified candidate that shared his surname.
Two members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines assigned to the Presidential Security Group were arrested after they allegedly broke into an auto shop in Quezon City Thursday midnight and took away P100,000 worth of valuables and a car, police said.
The Boy Scouts of America’s national leadership will vote Thursday whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation’s oldest youth organizations and its millions of members.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has yet to proclaim the winning party-list groups Thursday after Comelec chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. announced they would issue a resolution on the proclamation of winners Friday.
Exuberant over Team PNoy’s rout of the opposition in the last elections, President Benigno Aquino III said Wednesday night he was looking ahead to 2016, but conceded that electoral victory for whomever his administration would support then would hinge on the continuity of his reforms in the next three years.
