- The Association of South East Asian Nations declined to mention China's expansive island-building activities in the South China Sea in its chairman statement released after the 31st ASEAN Summit in Manila. "In this regard, we further reaffirmed the need to enhance mutual trust and confidence, emphasized the importance of non-militarization and self-restraint in the conduct of all activities by claimants and all other states," the statement read.
- The Department of Health announced that it will start distributing family planning products after the Food and Drug Administration certified that 51 contraceptives do not induce abortions. “Therefore, there has been a resumption of the provision of the essential reproductive health services to Filipino women and their families,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said in a press conference.
- Supporters of the Duterte administration file "sedition" and "inciting coup" charges against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.
- The Commission on Audit has called out GSIS and other state firms over the delayed posting of their members’ contributions and loan payments, affecting the amounts of pensions and benefits that their members will receive.
- Senate Republicans have decided to include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act's requirement that most people have health insurance into the sprawling tax rewrite, mering the fight over health care with the high-stakes effort to cut taxes.
- Watch Sir Chris Hoy doing donuts in a Caterham while gunning for a record.
- The live-action Gintama film will get a sequel this summer.
- Seiyuu Romi Park has left her agency after over two decades to go freelancing.
- Check out the list of nominees for The Game Awards 2017.
- The popular children's horror anthology series from the 90's, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, will spawn a film reboot and it will be penned by IT's Gary Dauberman.
- The Lord of the Rings will spawn a TV series on Amazon.
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