Surely, life would be more fun now for two new instant millionaires after snatching Super Lotto 6/49's P74.75 million jackpot Friday, raising to P263.72 million the total payout to 12 on-lottery winners so far this year.

Sen. Edgardo Angara warned Friday on the “deadly tools” that may allow the manipulation of the P1.7-T national budget.

Three distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were provided with financial and livelihood assistance by the Villar Foundation.

At least 4,000 employees and volunteers of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will be mobilized to prepare them for disasters.

Vice President Jejomar C. Binay urged Friday Chinese-Filipino businessmen to help the Philippines become a dominant player in the global business arena.

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A Saudi Arabian agro-industrial firm is investing $1.2 billion to cultivate an initial 2,000 hectares of idle lands in Maguindanao for the production of banana and root crops that are highly in demand in their oil-rich nation.

Senator Ralph G. Recto on Friday called for a revisit of the laws on foreign currency deposit units (FCDUs) and the confidentiality of bank accounts to hammer out better laws responsive to the “changing times and changing crimes” in the wake of the controversy over the bank accounts of impeached Chief Justice Renato C. Corona.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced Friday that 7 out of 8 passed the Metallurgical Engineer Licensure Examination given by the Board of Metallurgical Engineering in Manila from Feb. 7-9, 2012.

Twenty-one Filipino crew members of a Greek-owned but Liberiaflagged ship were kidnapped by Somali pirates off the western coast of the Socotra Islands in Yemen on Tuesday, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed Friday.

The prosecution now has eight senator-judges on its side, while the defense panel has five.

Two survivors of the powerful earthquake that jolted Negros Oriental last Monday were recovered from the wreckage of their house, government officials reported Friday.

President Benigno S. Aquino III on Friday challenged Chief Justice Renato C. Corona to reveal the contents of his dollar accounts in the Senate impeachment trial if he has nothing to hide.

Some 100 health workers from the Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) and various health organizations Friday joined patients and families in a protest action in front of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) national office in Pasig City, to denounce the increase in premium payments being implemented by PhilHealth.

The Department of Education (DepEd) Friday renewed its call to promote oral health among school- children to reduce absenteeism and improve school performance.

While some sectors take the population volume in the negative, Vice President Jejomar C. Binay said this has served the country well.

A shipbuilding and ship repair corporation sequestered by the government reportedly increased its net income by as much as 750 percent since the current Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) assumed control of the firm.

With only 15 months left before the holding of another congressional election, the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET) has moved to fast-track the resolution of remaining poll protests filed after the 2010 elections.

Two Filipinos, man and a woman, were arrested on February 1 by the Judiciary Police (PJ) in Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) for alleged drug trafficking, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) belatedly reported on Friday.

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Friday said it will conduct a week-long dry run of its motorcycle lane drive along Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) prior to its full implementation.