Sources: NBC News
President Rodrigo Duterte announces "community quarantine" in Metro Manila, Philippines, implementing travel restrictions to and from the metropolitan area. 2020-03-12
Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte says he plans to cut ties with his country's former colonial ruler, the United States, while strengthening ties with China. 2016-10-20
United States President Barack Obama hosts a two-day summit in Rancho Mirage, California with leaders of the ASEAN member states, including democratically-elected Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines and Joko Widodo of Indonesia as well as autocratic rulers such as Hun Sen of Cambodia and Najib Razak of Malaysia. 2016-02-15
Two Chinese consulate staff are killed and a consul general injured after a gunman opened fire on a restaurant in the city of Cebu, the "second city" of the Philippines. Various reports named the gunman as Chinese national Li Qingliang. 2015-10-21
The World Bank states that the Philippines can end poverty in a single generation. 2015-01-15
Typhoon Kalmaegi sweeps past Hong Kong after causing six deaths in the Philippines on Saturday. 2014-09-16
Syrian rebels attack the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights and capture 42 Fijian peacekeepers while surrounding a base manned by 75 Filipino soldiers. 2014-08-29
More than 200 people are injured by illegally huge firecrackers and celebratory gunfire in the Philippines. 2011-12-31
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
An explosion at Zamboanga International Airport in the southern Philippines kills two people and injures 24. 2010-08-6