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The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) over the weekend said it is working to restore its systems by Monday, September 25, 2023, after being hit by the Medusa ransomware, with the hackers demanding a $300,000 ransom for the stolen data.

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos over the weekend surprised Filipinos at the Lucky Plaza mall, a popular hub for overseas workers during their rest day, as part of his visit to Singapore.

Typhoon Hanna (international name: Haikui) has made landfall over Taitung County in Taiwan and is expected to exit the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) by early Monday morning, but two areas remain under Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal 1.

Political analysts and maritime law experts doubted China’s sincerity in defusing tensions in the South China Sea as Beijing continued to push for the removal of the BRP Sierra Madre from the Ayungin Shoal.

SM Prime Holdings Inc. posted a 49% growth in its consolidated net income in the second quarter of the year, as its revenues climbed 39% driven mainly by the growth of its mall business.

Falcon (international name: Khanun) has intensified into a typhoon and is set to bring rains over western Luzon over the next three days, PAGASA said late Sunday.

The Philippines is now looking at legal steps to recover the nearly P2-billion deposit it made for 16 helicopters from Russia following the termination of the billion-peso deal between the two countries.

Following Senator Imee Marcos' disclosure that United States Air Force planes landed in the country, the senator called for fairness in the monitoring of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.

Luxury personal hotel and residences operator Lanson Place, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed Wing Tai Properties Ltd., is set to open its new property in the Mall of Asia complex in Pasay City in collaboration with the SM Hotel and Conventions Corp. (SMHCC).

The Philippines reported 521 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, June 25, but the country’s active cases declined to the lowest level in 53 days, data released by the Department of Health (DOH) revealed.