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Metro Manila, Philippines, is placed under a state of calamity due to flash floods caused by Typhoon Gaemi.
2024-07-24

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits southern Mindanao, Philippines, killing at least seven people and leaving two others missing.
2023-11-17

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 magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Luzon, Philippines, killing four people and injuring over 100 others.
2022-07-27

The Sandiganbayan, the Philippines' anti-graft court, orders Royal Traders Holding Co. Inc., a bank formerly controlled by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, to pay the Philippine government an estimated PHP1 billion ($32.446 million) in bank certificates that were confiscated by the United States Customs Service after Marcos was deposed in 1986.
2021-09-29

The Philippines' GDP contracts 9.5% in 2020, its first annual contraction since 1998 following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the country's worst economic performance since records began in 1947.
2021-01-28

Flights are cancelled and evacuations are ordered for over 100,000 people in the North Central Coast of Vietnam, in preparation for Typhoon Doksuri. The system has already claimed four lives passing over the Philippines.
2017-09-14

At least 24 people are dead after a Leomarick Trans bus falls into a ravine in the Philippines province of Nueva Ecija.
2017-04-18

Typhoon Melor (Nona) causes widespread flooding and blackouts in the Philippines. More than 700,000 people had been evacuated ahead of the storm which hit late on Monday night.
2015-12-15

An ambush by suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels kills 6 rubber plantation workers and injures a further 22 in the southern Philippines.
2012-07-11