Sources: AFP via Yahoo! News
In golf, 19-year-old Yuka Saso of the Philippines wins this year's championship at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California, after coming back from two double-bogeys to beat Japan's Nasa Hataoka in the third hole of a sudden death playoff. Saso is the first Filipino player to win a major golf championship and equals South Korea's Inbee Park as the youngest champion of the U.S. Women's Open. 2021-06-6
The Food and Drug Administration approves the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use in the Philippines. 2021-01-28
Solomon Islands records its first case, a student who arrived from the Philippines. 2020-10-3
The Philippines posts a single-day Southeast Asian record, with 6,352 new COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, as well as 11 deaths. More than 66,000 people have recovered. 2020-08-4
At least 14 people are killed in separate drug-related incidents in Cebu Province, Philippines. 2018-10-4
Leila de Lima, senator and critic of the Philippine Drug War, is charged by Philippines justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II of alleged drug-related crimes. 2017-02-17
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declares war on the Philippines. 2016-06-22
The Philippines evacuates coastal villages, suspends ferry services and calls in fishing boats as category 5 Typhoon Usagi approaches. 2013-09-20
The death toll from Typhoon Bopha rises to at least 418, with 383 still missing in southern Philippines. At least 179,000 others have been left homeless after the passage of the storm. 2012-12-6