Sources: NBC News
The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases issues a resolution stating that all foreign nationals entering the Philippines must present proof of full vaccination. 2022-01-14
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
Authorities diagnose six more cases of the Zika virus in the provinces of Cebu and Iloilo in the Visayas and Laguna province near Metro Manila, Philippines. 2016-09-20
The Abu Sayyaf militant group threatens to behead a Canadian hostage, a Filipina hostage, and a Norwegian hostage. 2016-05-4
The United States and the United Kingdom issue travel alerts for their citizens to avoid the Sulu Archipelago in the southwestern Philippines where a wave of kidnappings by Abu Sayyaf militants has occurred. 2016-04-21
The World Bank states that the Philippines can end poverty in a single generation. 2015-01-15
Heavy rain and landslides kill 20 people in the southeastern Philippines, mostly in the Mindanao provinces of Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley. Another 13 are missing. [http:--www.startribune.com-world-239895071.html ("Minneapolis Star Tribune")]date=April 2020 2014-01-13
The People's Republic of China rejects an attempt by the Philippines to seek international arbitration over conflicting claims to the South China Sea. 2013-02-19
23-year-old Czech beauty queen Tereza Fajksová wins Miss Earth 2012, the 12th edition of the Miss Earth pageant, in Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines. 2012-11-24
Security is tightened in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, ahead of anti-China protests amid an ongoing Sino-Philippine territorial dispute in the South China Sea. 2012-05-11