Sources: AFP
The death toll from Typhoon Fung-wong's impact on Luzon, Philippines, rises to 25, with more than 1.4 million others displaced. 2025-11-10
Authorities recover the remains of a Filipino crew member from the sand barge Hong Hai 16 that capsized off Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, yesterday, bringing the total death toll to two. Nine others are reportedly still missing. 2025-04-16
Six suspected New People's Army guerrillas, including two ranking leaders of a regional committee, are killed in an encounter in Las Navas, Northern Samar, Philippines. 2024-12-2
One person is killed and ten others are wounded in a bus bombing in Tacurong, Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, Philippines. 2022-11-6
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he plans to ban immigration from Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Uzbekistan and Yemen. 2016-08-5
Rodrigo Duterte is inaugurated as President of the Philippines and Leni Robredo as Vice President. 2016-06-30
Twelve thousand people have been evacuated from the area near the Mayon Volcano on the Philippines island of Luzon due to concerns over a possible eruption. 2014-09-16
An international aid effort is underway to help the Philippines cope with the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. 2013-11-11
The Moro National Liberation Front kidnaps eight civilians in the Philippines Basilan province later releasing four of them. 2013-07-12
Rescue crews head to areas of the Philippines severely affected by Typhoon Bopha. At least 283 are now believed to have died as a result of the storm, with 339 injured, hundreds more missing and over 87,000 evacuated. 2012-12-5