President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. allowed Republic Act (RA) No. 11963 to lapse into law on Thursday, October 12, renaming the Agham Road and the BIR Road as Senator Miriam P. Defensor-Santiago Avenue.
Three Pakistani nationals with alleged links to a local terrorist group were arrested by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) in Zamboanga del Sur and Lanao del Sur earlier this week.
The cost of agricultural damages left by Super Typhoon “Goring” has ballooned to P1.14 billion as of Sept. 6, the Department of Agriculture Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DA-DRRM) said.
At least nine people were killed Saturday, Aug. 26, after a train coach parked in southern India caught fire when a passenger tried to make tea, officials said.
Singapore executed a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin, the city-state's fifth hanging this year and the third in just over a week, authorities said on Thursday.
The first commercial flight from Yemen's rebel-held capital to Saudi Arabia since 2016 took off carrying hajj pilgrims on Saturday, in the latest sign of easing tensions after years of war.
