Marc Jayson News Today

The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission is eyeing to file charges of tax evasion and violation of securities laws against Mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac.

Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile sees nothing wrong with the Philippines temporarily hosting refugees from Afghanistan, saying the former has a history of providing shelter for forcibly displaced individuals.

Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile sees nothing wrong with the Philippines temporarily hosting refugees from Afghanistan, saying the former has a history of providing shelter for forcibly displaced individuals.

The Department of Tourism has tapped the mobile transport service application Grab in its plan to modernize transactions, including digitalizing tour bookings.

A man linked to robbery incidents in Makati City was killed in an alleged shootout with police on Friday night.

As Congress begins on Friday its two-week break, debates over the Maharlika Investment Fund bill in the Senate continue, with Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III questioning the apparent rush by his colleagues in the majority to have the measure passed.

Another suspect in the assassination of Negros Oriental governor Roel Degamo that resulted in the killing of nine other people last March in Pamplona town has retracted his admission of the crime and accused soldiers and police of forcing him to sign his previous affidavit.

With no conviction made seven years after the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act was passed, Sen. Cynthia Villar yesterday branded the law as “a failure” at the hands of the Bureau of Customs.

A piece of luggage abandoned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 turned out to contain 2.8 kilos of methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu when Bureau of Customs officers examined it yesterday.

Suspended Negros Oriental 3rd District Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. claimed yesterday that an order was issued for immigration officers to apprehend him the moment he arrives in the Philippines.