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Free ride-hailing apps continue to grow in number. If they are left unchecked, transport regulators worry, incidents that may arise from their operations could taint the integrity of the pilot test established precisely to ensure road safety.

When ride-hailing platforms fail to match passengers with a ride to work on time, commuters turns to an unlikely website: Facebook.

Former broadcast journalist Jay Sonza, who has previously spread misleading information online, falsely claimed United States President Donald Trump "wants to replicate" President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war.

A video introducing the government’s task force to end communist insurgency contains several erroneous details, from the state of the Philippine economy in the 1960s to the use of a wrong logo of the country’s economic planning agency.

A walk through the exhibit assails one's senses: the female form in all its nakedness, full pendulous breasts, vulvas and vaginas, a womb filled with life, skulls in a row, and more. The male element is not forgotten, in phalluses and giant bronze-coated bullets, its penile form gleaming under the tropical sun.

House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano bloated the number of illegal drug users cited in a 2001 Letter of Instruction (LOI) ten times, repeating President Rodrigo Duterte’s baseless claim on current number of drug addicts.

Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go’s claim that the number of drug lords in the Philippines went down under the leadership of President Rodrigo Duterte has no basis.

NAIROBI -- One in 10 Filipino girls are getting pregnant. The Philippines faced this truth as it joined a global population and development conference where it committed to reduce poverty and go all out in fully implementing sexual and reproductive health policies amid high pregnancy incidence among girls aged 15-19, now a national concern requiring urgent intervention.

In the fight against disinformation, there is a need to go beyond personality-based name and shame campaigns, and instead analyze the complicity and collusion of professional creative workers in the fake news industry, the latest study by the authors of the 2018 breakthrough report “Architects of Networked Disinformation” in the 2016 elections, said.

President Rodrigo Duterte has called coal plants “clean energy” and urged the private sector to invest more in these types of facilities.

A motorcyclist shares his lesson after suffering from three road crashes in over four years. “We cannot control what’s going to happen on the road. Better to be safe so be in full gear, with a helmet.”

The Philippines needs to redirect its health care strategies in order to combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cancer and heart disease, which account for 68 percent of all deaths in the country and impose an enormous burden on the economy.