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One person is killed and another is reported missing after a fire on an inter-island ferry in Manila, Philippines.
2022-06-26

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

An IAI Westwind jet, chartered by the Philippine government for a medical evacuation flight to Haneda Airport in Japan, crashes upon takeoff at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. All eight people onboard are killed.
2020-03-29

Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila announces the cancellation of 20 flights due to bad weather in the Philippines caused by Tropical Storm Marce.
2016-11-25

In response to criticism of his government's extrajudicial killings of 1,800 people since July, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte says that U.S. forces advising the Armed Forces of the Philippines against an Islamic insurgency in Mindanao are doing more harm than good and must leave the country, saying, ”I do not want a rift with America, but they have to go," during a speech in Manila.
2016-09-12

The Presidential Palace and the Philippine Senate investigate an extortion scam involving the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
2015-10-31

Manila is inundated by massive flooding causing flights to the international airport to be cancelled and businesses to shut down.
2014-09-19

A gunman opens fire outside a terminal at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines, killing four people, including the mayor of Labangan, Ukol Talumpa.
2013-12-20

Residents and authorities in the Philippines clean up after Typhoon Nesat which killed at least 20 people, most in and near the capital Manila.
2011-09-28

Thousands of airline passengers are stranded at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila after Philippine Airlines staff stage a walkout.
2011-09-27