- Appointments panel holds first session
- China displays its weaponry in a tightly controlled military parade
- Wildfire tears through California gold rush town
- Comelec probes 15 contractors for illegal campaign donations
- Eala writes another historic chapter in Philippine tennis
- NKorea's Kim tells Xi hopes to 'steadily develop' ties – KCNA
- New Quezon City judge to oversee Dengvaxia vaccine cases, sets hearing
- Laws signed on holidays, court branches
- Heavy rain falls in parts of Southeast Asia after tropical storm blows into Vietnam
- One in four people lack access to safe drinking water – UN
