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President Rodrigo Duterte appears to have thrown in the towel as far as fighting corruption is concerned.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said he hoped that Myanmar's government will pardon two Reuters journalists who were sentenced to seven years in jail after they reported on massacres in Rakhine state.

Amnesty International hit out on Thursday at the repression by Nicolas Maduro's government in Venezuela, saying that more people were murdered in the South American country than in some war zones.

Could we call inflation hitting a nine-year high last August at 6.4 percent, way above the government’s target, an example of “runaway inflation?” Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno says doing so is “irresponsible.”

China appears poised to scrap its two-child policy, with a state-run newspaper Monday citing a draft civil code that would overhaul decades of controversial family-planning rules.

India on Wednesday rejected an offer by the United Arab Emirates government to give $100 million to a special fund for Kerala state after its floods which killed more than 400 people.

The government lost out on P2.67 billion in royalties which were not collected from five mining firms operating outside mineral reservation areas (MRAs) in the Caraga Region from 2012 to 2016, according to the Commission on Audit (COA).

More than a year ago, President Rodrigo Duterte declared bilyonaryo Lucio Tan an enemy and called him a son of a bitch.

Venezuela's regional rivals are to ask the International Criminal Court to investigate Nicolas Maduro's government over crimes against humanity, Argentina's President Mauricio Macri said.

Detained Senator Leila de Lima has pressed for a probe on the Commission on Audit (CoA) report that the Phil. Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) incurred over P4.75 billion net loss in 2017.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday (August 17) admitted that his pronouncement to step down was just an "afterthought" because he was exasperated at the extent of corruption in government.

President Rodrigo Duterte said the Catholic Church should practice what it preached by giving a full accounting of all the money it collected every mass.

President Rodrigo Duterte lambasted anew the critics who accuse him of wanting to extend his term so he could rule like a dictator.

A new jingle prepared by the government to promote federalism may be finalized this week, Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar said Tuesday.

President Rodrigo Duterte again floated the possibility of cutting his term short as he expressed frustration over the continuing corruption in government.

Resigned Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo does not want Bitag Media Unlimited, Inc. (BMUI), headed by her brother Ben Tulfo, to return to the government the P60 million it supposedly earned from the allegedly anomalous advertisement deal…

A row is erupting over vaccines in Italy as the country's new populist government fights to roll back a law that bans children from attending school if they haven't received a series of jabs.

With several lawmakers and Cabinet members expressing reservations towards changing the Constitution to shift to a federal system of government, Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III admitted that it would be “difficult” to meet their target…

Puerto Rico for the first time has told Congress that its 1,427 additional deaths last year compared to 2016 may have resulted from Hurricane Maria, a dramatic spike from the official toll of 64.

Venezuela said Friday it has asked Interpol to arrest an opposition politician exiled in Colombia and accused of involvement in an apparent attack against President Nicolas Maduro.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said Friday the government has yet to receive word from Washington amid circulating reports that the US defense secretary had announced the return of the Balangiga Bells to the Philippines.