The police foiled Wednesday an attempt to smuggle P3.6 million worth of petroleum products to Sulu from somewhere in the country’s border with Malaysia.

Following his announced withdrawal from the presidential race, Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go continued to help victims of fire and other natural calamities as he vowed to provide assistance to the poor.

A transmission tower of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines in Lanao del Sur was bombed yesterday.

Unidentified motorcycle-riding men gunned down a director of a hospital in this city yesterday.

The death toll in the encounter between New People’s Army rebels and government troopers in Miag-ao town on Wednesday has doubled.

Manila Mayor Isko Moreno visited Parañaque yesterday and presented himself as an “ordinary” presidential candidate in next year’s elections.

Following the three-day national vaccination program this week, the Quezon City government said it has inoculated over two million people against COVID-19.

A typhoon with international name Nyatoh is expected to further intensify but will no longer enter the Philippine area of responsibility, according to the state weather bureau.

The body of dismissed police officer Jonel Nuezca, who murdered a woman and her son in Tarlac last year, will undergo autopsy to determine the cause of his death at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa, the Bureau of Corrections said yesterday.

The first day of the reimposition of the modified number coding scheme in Metro Manila went smoothly on Wednesday, according to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority.