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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

The government signs an agreement with Pfizer to purchase 40 million doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine, the Philippines' largest supply agreement for a COVID-19 vaccine.
2021-05-17

Nine activists are killed in police raids in the northern Philippines two days after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered government forces to kill communists in the country.
2021-03-7

The government of the Philippines and the Communist Party cancel peace talks after president Rodrigo Duterte declares martial law in Mindanao.
2017-05-28

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak condemns the Philippine-based Abu Sayyaf's beheading of a Malaysian man. Businessman Bernard Then and a woman were kidnapped in May from the Malaysia-island Sabah; the woman was released last week. Philippine Colonel Restituto Padilla said the killing followed a "failure of the negotiations about money."
2015-11-18

The Philippines asks the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague to invalidate China's claims to virtually all of the South China Sea. The hearing was attended by observers from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
2015-07-9

Malaysia summons a Philippines diplomat over a dispute regarding the ownership of Sabah.
2015-05-25

President Barack Obama is set on visiting Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines after previously cancelling his trip in 2013.
2014-02-13

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

The government of the Philippines announces that it will file a complaint against China before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea seeking arbitration for the territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
2013-01-22