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A Regional Trial Court in Caloocan, Philippines, sentences a police officer to life imprisonment for torturing and fabricating evidence on drug war victims Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman in 2017.
2022-11-24

Thousands of people are evacuated from their homes in central and southern Philippines as Typhoon Rai, described as one of the strongest storms of the year, begins to make landfall in mid-eastern parts of the country, with warnings of very destructive typhoon-force winds.
2021-12-16

The Philippines receives its first shipment of 487,200 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine supplied by the COVAX initiative.
2021-03-4

The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Goni, the world's strongest this year, rises to 20 people. Electricity, water and phone networks are cut off in Catanduanes, while homes are buried under volcanic rocks in Albay; those two are the provinces where all the deaths occurred. About one million people have been evacuated.
2020-11-2

The United Nations Human Rights Council conducts a periodic review of the human rights situation in the Philippines.
2017-05-8

President-elect of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, vows to reintroduce capital punishment and give security forces permission to shoot to kill for organized crime figures and people resisting arrest. Duterte is due to take office on June 30, 2016.
2016-05-15

China condemns the Philippines over the latter's "pressure" over the South China Sea despite the disadvantage of the Armed Forces of the Philippines against China's People's Liberation Army.
2014-12-7

Typhoon Usagi hits the northern Philippines causing flooding and landslides and disrupting transport, communications and power supplies.
2013-09-21

The Philippines lends the International Monetary Fund $1 billion. [http:--globalnation.inquirer.net-40931-palace-philippines-duty-bound-to-help-poor-nations "(Philippine Daily Inquirer)"]
2012-06-22

Floods in the Filipino province of Maguindanao affect 16,000 families.
2011-09-23