Sources: NBC News
During a state visit by South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol to the Philippines, the Philippines and South Korea agree to upgrade their relations to a strategic partnership. 2024-10-7
The Philippines reports a record 19,441 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,935,700. 2021-08-28
The Philippines report 4,963 new cases, its highest toll to date. The cases rise to 98,232 and the deaths jump by 17 to reach a total of 2,039. 2020-08-1
The death toll of the Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines rises to 81. 59 others are still missing. 2018-09-18
More than 200 people are dead in the southern Philippines as a result of floods and mudslides caused by Severe Tropical Storm Vinta. 2017-12-23
The death toll from flooding in the Philippine province of Cebu rises to nine with ten missing. 2017-04-17
The Commission on Human Rights launches an investigation into alleged murders committed by current Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte. 2016-12-22
At least 18 soldiers are killed and 52 injured in clashes with Abu Sayyaf militants and allied gunmen in Basilan island, Philippines. 2016-04-9
Human rights activists and families of the victims decry the lack of justice six years after the murder of around 58 people, including journalists and politicians, in Maguindanao, Mindanao. They criticize the regime of Philippines President Benigno Aquino III for the lack of convictions in the trial. 2015-11-23
The World Bank states that the Philippines can end poverty in a single generation. 2015-01-15