As of 4AM today, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) reported that the center of typhoon “Katring” was estimated at 810 km East of Northern Luzon and may miss making landfall over Northern Luzon as it continued to move north northwest.

Typhoon Juan (international codename Megi) is expected to make landfall in the coastal town of Sta. Ana in Cagayan province by Monday afternoon.

Journalist Maria Ressa formally announced that she is resigning from being the head of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs effective January 2011.

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) is set to ask Malacañang to declare the upcoming barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections on October 25, 2010 a holiday.

President Noynoy Aquino has declared September 10, 2010 as a non-working holiday in the Philippines.

The driver of the Hong Thai tourist bus held hostage by former Captain Rolando del Rosario Mendoza was able to escape and claimed that all the hostages are dead.

Dismissed Manila Police District senior police inspector Rolando del Rosario Mendoza has taken hostage 25 people on board a Hong Thai tourist bus in front of the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park, Manila.

Binibining Pilipinas International 2009 Melody Gersbach, make-up artist Alden Orense, and driver died in a vehicular accident in Bula town, Camarines Sur on Saturday morning.

The former mayor of Tagaytay City for 9 years, Atty. Francis Tolentino is the new chairman of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA).

Here is the transcript or full text of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III State of the Nation Address SONA 2010 speech held recently after the opening of the 15th Congress at the Batasang Pambansa.