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The Senate of the Philippines adopts a resolution condemning China's incursions in the West Philippine Sea and urges the Department of Foreign Affairs to file a resolution regarding China's harassment of Philippine vessels before the United Nations General Assembly.
2023-08-1

A massive fire damages the Manila Central Post Office in Manila, Philippines.
2023-05-21

The Philippine Food and Drug Administration approves the emergency use of the Molnupiravir drug made by Merck & Co. for high-risk adult patients and also approves the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11 years.
2021-12-23

The Philippines temporarily suspends sending workers to Qatar.
2017-06-6

A Japanese Navy submarine makes a port call in the Philippines, the first in fifteen years, in a show of growing military cooperation amid tension triggered by China's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. It was escorted into the former U.S. Naval Base at Subic Bay by two Japanese destroyers on a tour of Southeast Asia.
2016-04-3

Philippines: The Red Cross says that 10,000 people are confirmed dead. It reported that at least 1,000 had been killed in Tacloban and 200 in Samar province.
2013-11-9

The death toll from flash floods in the Philippines caused by Tropical Storm Washi reaches 1,500 per some sources, but the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council currently puts the number lower.
2011-12-27

The death toll from flooding in the Philippines caused by Tropical Storm Washi reaches 1,002 and is set to rise further.
2011-12-21

The death toll from Tropical Storm Washi in the Philippines rises to nearly 1,000.
2011-12-20

Flash floods triggered by Tropical Storm Washi kill at least 400 people in the Philippines with hundreds more missing.
2011-12-17