The Marcos administration intends to counter the ICC’s decision to resume the drug war probe, particularly by elevating the matter to the international court’s appeals chamber, Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra says.

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III will be in Manila next week for an official trip, the US Department of Defense announced.

Senator JV Ejercito proposes to expand the scope of the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act by imposing stringent penalties for hoarding, profiteering, and cartel of agricultural products, and to include them among economic sabotage crimes.