Along with the Inter-Agency Council against Trafficking led by the Department of Justice, DFA said it assisted the women "in the filing of criminal complaints against human traffickers who victimized them in their home provinces, in Dubai and in Syri...

Coronavirus cases in the Philippines climbed to 535,521 on Saturday after the Department of Health logged 1,941 new infections. 

"Such direct threats engender fear that chills journalists or even citizens from exercising their rights to freedom of expression and freedom of the press."

A senator close to President Rodrigo Duterte said Saturday that the chief executive does not want to implement the child car seat law at this time.

Filipinos will be among the first to receive coronavirus vaccines from the World Health Organization-led COVAX facility, the British embassy said Friday.

The Commission on Human Rights said its office in Western Visayas will be conducting an investigation on Silay City police for parading alleged quarantine violators

Health authorities said they detected eight more cases of the new coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom called B.1.1.7, bringing the total number of cases of the more infectious variant to 25.

The Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Center is still on dry run, a regional director of the Land Transportation Office, said while admitting that there are not enough accredited PMVICs to cater to the big number of vehicles that go through the new in...

Newly installed Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana has vowed to make a mark in the military’s fight against the New People’s Army and the overall effort to end the country’s insurgency problem.

Government officials and staff on official business won’t be mandated to undergo strict 14-day quarantine and testing protocols for COVID-19 imposed by local governments, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease...