Aksyon Balita (Filipino for "Action News", formerly NewsWatch Aksyon Balita) is the late afternoon news broadcast of Radio Philippines Network in the Philippines. Launched in 2006, it is broadcast at 5:30 PM Philippine time (GMT +8).
It was created as a spin-off of the network's now-defunct long-running news program, NewsWatch. With the latter program's final episode on March 9, 2007, the Filipino edition dropped the "NewsWatch" tag and is retitled to, simply, Aksyon Balita, apparently to complement the network's new English newscast, i-Watch News.
It was first aired on April 17, 2006 and was anchored by former ABS-CBN news anchor and reporter Erwin Tulfo. Months ago he was joined by Aljo Bendijo and Connie Sison who were Tulfo's fellow news anchors from ABS-CBN. But, Tulfo resigned as its news anchor because of the controversy of his brothers Raffy and Mon with First Gentleman Mike Arroyo and he was replaced by Jake Morales until Sison and Bendijo remained as its main anchors. On April 2007, Sison moved to GMA Network and replaced by Vikki Sambilay. Bendijo and Sambilay became the newscast's main anchors until Sambilay went solo. On October 15, 2007, Sambilay was joined by Bobby Yan who was a former ABS-CBN TV Host, San Juan City councilor, the current host of One Morning and the brother of the late Movie and TV star Rico Yan. Last January 4, 2008, it went its final airing. It was replaced by NewsWatch which went back on the air on January 7, 2008.