Sources: AFP
The Supreme Court of the Philippines votes 8–6 to grant the quo warranto petition by the Solicitor General against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, removing her from office for violating requirements on the Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth. 2018-05-11
A new set of kidnappings and a jail break plague Sulu province in the southern region of Mindanao in the Philippines. 2017-07-17
The Liberal Party of the Philippines, the party of vice president Leni Robredo and detained senator Leila de Lima, formally becomes the opposition after its members and its ally from the Akbayan party are ousted from key positions in the Senate. 2017-02-27
Leila de Lima, senator and critic of the Philippine Drug War, is charged by Philippines justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II of alleged drug-related crimes. 2017-02-17
A news publisher is allegedly killed in the Philippine province of Catanduanes after publishing a story about the controversial drug purge campaign. 2016-12-20
Asia-Pacific leaders, in the Philippines for the 2015 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, which has been overshadowed by the concurrent Paris attacks, call on governments to urgently increase cooperation in the fight against terrorism. 2015-11-19
Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in recorded history to make landfall, hits the Visayas in the Philippines, with at least three people dead. 2013-11-8
The death toll from Tropical Storm Washi in the Philippines rises to nearly 1,000. 2011-12-20
Colombia, Ukraine and the Philippines, who initially declined invitations to attend the ceremony, reverse their decision. 2010-12-9
Airplane cleaners in the Philippines locate a newborn male baby human which had been discarded in a toilet bin. 2010-09-12