"As the new commander of this Task Force, I expect [Police Lt. Gen.] Sermonia will continue the plans and programs of the previous commander and enforce minimum health protocols for us to fully mitigate the deadly virus."

Malacañang on Wednesday called for an agreement that would prevent the Ukraine crisis from escalating into a "conflagration" that would affect the world while it is still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Commuters endure kilometric queues for scarce public transport [and] have noted online that the MRT trains have been operating at standing room capacity and jeepneys and buses beyond the maximum capacity even during the more restrictive alert level...

"Under a democratic society, any dispute—may it be politically-motivated or otherwise—should never be settled through the barrel of a gun."

A number of lines from the original post were not actually said during the interview.

Petitioners against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 have appealed to the Supreme Court to take another look at the feared law, citing the “deadly consequences” of its implementation.

A Manila court has rejected the bid of Aegis Juris frat men to dismiss the case against them over the fatal hazing of University of Santo Tomas law student Horacio “Atio” Castillo III in 2017.

Workers’ groups have long been pushing for the passage of the Security of Tenure Bill, which seeks to end the practice of contractualization or “endo” where workers’ contracts end on the fifth month to avoid regularizing them.

Petitioners against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 on Wednesday filed an appeal to partly reverse the Supreme Court’s historic ruling that mostly kept the law intact in the face of 37 legal challenges.

Hundreds of former and current heads of schools, colleges and universities, faculty members from the University of Santo Tomas, and former National Economic and Development Authority employees have come out in support of Vice President Leni Robredo�...