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The Philippine Food and Drug Administration reduces the interval of the COVID-19 vaccine booster dose to three months for people who received a two-dose vaccine and two months for people who received a single-dose vaccine in order to reduce the effects of variants.
2021-12-21

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

Typhoon Goni kills two people in the Philippines with thousands of people evacuated in the Philippines and Taiwan.
2015-08-21

An unknown gunman shoots dead Nerlita Ledesma, a journalist from the Philippine tabloid "Abante" in the province of Bataan; her death is the 172nd murder of a journalist since the return of democracy in 1986 and the 31st during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III.
2015-01-8

The Philippines economy grows by 6.4% in Q2 showing signs of recovery after it was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
2014-08-28

The Moro National Liberation Front attacks the Philippines town of Lamitan with five people missing and two injured.
2013-09-12

China's defense ministry criticizes the United States for allegedly increasing tensions in the Asia-Pacific region by increasing its military presence and supporting Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam in longstanding territorial disputes.
2013-04-16

The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Nesat reaches 43 with Typhoon Nalgae expected to cause further flood problems.
2011-09-30

Rebels in the Philippines kill five policemen in the first attack since an agreement to restart peace talks. [http:--english.aljazeera.net-news-asia-pacific-2011-01-201112483340318856.html (Al Jazeera)] [http:--www.philstar.com-Article.aspx?articleId=651003&publicationSubCategoryId=200 ("Philippine Star")]date=August 2019
2011-01-24

Andal Ampatuan Jr., charged with 41 counts of murder in the Maguindanao massacre in November, pleads not guilty at the beginning of his trial in the Philippines.
2010-01-5