Health authorities on Tuesday said 4,734 more Filipinos contracted the COVID-19, raising the total count to 1,113,547.

"We know that teachers should only render 8 to 10 hours. Beyond those, it will be difficult and very tiring for them," said DepEd Usec. Alain Pascua.

Citing the Palace’s statement on presidential statements as binding, retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio urged President Rodrigo Duterte to retract his statements on the West Philippine Sea.

Duterte made the boast at a televised campaign debate and in response to a fisherman asking what candidates could do to protect Filipino fisherfolk from being harassed by China's coast guard.

"The point is that this should serve as a lesson and warning again to all others, not just the establishment but including the barangay chairman. They need to find a way to make sure this won't happen again," Eleazar said.

Tune in to the LIVE audio streaming of the oral arguments scheduled at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 11.

Marcos is appealing to a tribunal that, in a unanimous vote, junked his poll protest.

"The fact of the matter is, he has not been eased out," Lacson said. "It comes off to us as a bit arrogant and...it will cost them." 

“The presence of non-compliant products in the market, including imported ones, stresses the need for further measures to ensure full compliance to the ban,” said Thony Dizon, chemical safety campaigner at the EcoWaste Coalition.

Including intersex in the definition of sex would have been a landmark recognition of intersex people in legislation, which currently only recognizes two sexes — man and woman.