Sources: BBC News
Puerto Rico declares an epidemic of dengue fever following an increase in cases. 2024-03-25
Venezuela reaches an agreement to buy doses of the Russian EpiVacCorona vaccine, as well as manufacture the vaccine locally. 2021-06-5
Senegal receives 324,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative. 2021-03-3
Suriname begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using a small number of vaccine doses donated by Barbados. 2021-02-23
GlaxoSmithKline and the German biotech firm CureVac sign an agreement worth 150 million euros ($180.7 million) to develop a vaccine to counter many variants of SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to be introduced in 2022. 2021-02-3
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan approves the AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use in the country. 2021-01-16
China is expected to begin administering vaccines to healthcare, transport, and border control workers. 2020-12-19
Maria Ressa, CEO of Philippine news site Rappler, is found guilty of libel by a Manila court over a 2012 story linking a businessman to various crimes. She faces up to six years in prison. 2020-06-15
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte insists Canada remove tons of mislabeled, misdirected trash from Manila that arrived in 2013 and 2014. Duterte threatens to retaliate, up to declaring war, if the trash is not removed. 2019-04-23
Devastating fire in Manila, Philippines leaves about 8,000 people homeless and nine injured in a Makati City squatter community. 2011-04-19