Sources: National Geographic
Two people are killed and four others are injured after a car crashes into an entrance of Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila, Philippines. The driver of the car is in police custody. 2025-05-4
Filipino singer Sofronio Vasquez wins the 26th season of "The Voice", becoming the first Filipino and Asian contestant to win a season of the show. 2024-12-10
A trial court in Taguig, Philippines, convicts 17 leaders and members of Abu Sayyaf, including two top officials of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement who were on the United Nations Security Council's Sanctions List, of the kidnapping of 21 tourists from Sipadan, Malaysia, in 2000. The convicts are sentenced to "reclusión perpetua". 2024-10-21
Nine people, including Negros Oriental governor Roel Degamo, are killed by unknown gunmen in Degamo's home in Pamplona, Philippines. 2023-03-4
The Philippines reports a record 382 deaths in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 13,817. 2021-04-6
A new set of kidnappings and a jail break plague Sulu province in the southern region of Mindanao in the Philippines. 2017-07-17
Typhoon Melor (Nona) causes widespread flooding and blackouts in the Philippines. More than 700,000 people had been evacuated ahead of the storm which hit late on Monday night. 2015-12-15
An indigenous Lumad child dies in an evacuation center while the Philippine Senate investigates the alleged September 1 murders of an indigenous Lumad family and the alleged rape of an indigenous Manobo girl by soldiers and militiamen of the Philippine Army. 2015-09-10
The Philippines government confiscates art owned by Imelda Marcos, including a Michaelangelo, a Gauguin, and a Picasso, alleging that these were bought using embezzled funds. 2014-10-1
Taiwan plans to expand a pier on one of the disputed Spratly Islands, parts of which are also claimed by Vietnam, Brunei, China, Malaysia and the Philippines, as the other claimants strengthen military deployment in the South China Sea. 2013-04-7