Sources: AFP
A trial court in Taguig, Philippines, convicts 17 leaders and members of Abu Sayyaf, including two top officials of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement who were on the United Nations Security Council's Sanctions List, of the kidnapping of 21 tourists from Sipadan, Malaysia, in 2000. The convicts are sentenced to "reclusión perpetua". 2024-10-21
Eighteen people are injured in an explosion at a firecracker warehouse in Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines. 2023-06-15
Seven soldiers are injured when suspected communist guerrillas detonate a land mine in Mapanas, Northern Samar, Philippines. 2022-07-5
The Philippines reports a record for the second consecutive day of 28,707 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2,965,447. 2022-01-9
Indonesia restricts the exports of coal to the Philippines after the abduction of Indonesian sailors by the Abu Sayyaf. 2016-06-24
Philippines President Benigno Aquino III asks Indonesian President Joko Widodo to spare the life of Mary Jane Veloso, a migrant domestic worker sentenced to death for drug trafficking. 2015-04-27
A 5.2 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Philippines near Masbate City on the island of Masbate causing some injuries. 2012-03-6
The United States issues a terrorist-related travel warning for the Philippines. 2011-06-14
One person is missing and thousands of people have fled as Typhoon Megi, the first supertyphoon of the 2010 Pacific typhoon season, makes landfall in the Philippines. 2010-10-18