The allocation for emergency loan assistance for members and pensioners of the Government Service Insurance System displaced by flooding in Luzon and Mindanao has been increased to nearly P8 billion.

Investigators have completed gathering evidence from a ferry that caught fire while sailing in the waters off Coron, Palawan, according to the Philippine Coast Guard.

Administrative charges have been filed against three municipal police chiefs in Cavite in connection with a shooting incident in Maragondon, which resulted in the death of a policeman and an aide of a mayor.

Several areas in the Visayas and Mindanao experienced “very unhealthy” and “acutely unhealthy” air yesterday due to haze coming from the ongoing forest fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Four suspected terrorists were killed in an encounter in Tugunan, Cotabato yesterday morning, according to the military.

A policeman was sacked from his post after he was caught driving a motorcycle without a license plate in Quezon City.

The Philippine Army welcomed 293 soldiers to its ranks on Friday, boosting the military’s pool of highly trained and dedicated troops ready for combat and other operations.

A lifetime ban was recommended for an e-taxi driver who sexually abused a passenger in Parañaque on Sept. 12, the Land Transportation Office said.

Amid the human trafficking probe at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, the Bureau of Immigration would equip all its personnel assigned at airports with body-worn cameras, BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado said.

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines administration has committed to allow the use of lived names for this year’s commencement exercise following calls from PUP students.