Sources: Philstar Retiredanalyst
Typhoon Ragasa makes landfall in Luzon, Philippines, killing at least three people and leaving six others missing, and triggering alerts and evacuation orders in nearby Hong Kong and southern China. 2025-09-22
A Chinese crew member is killed when Chinese sand barge vessel "M-V Hong Hai 16" capsizes off Rizal, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. A search and rescue operation is launched by the Philippine Coast Guard for missing crew members, which includes seven Filipinos and three Chinese. 2025-04-15
Six soldiers and three "Dawlah Islamiyah"–Maute Group militants are killed in a series of military encounters in Munai, Lanao del Norte, Philippines. 2024-02-18
The Philippines reports its first case of the Omicron BA.4 variant in a person who recently travelled to the Middle East. 2022-05-21
Gunmen attack a Vietnamese vessel near Tawi-Tawi, Philippines, killing at least one sailor and abducting seven others, according to the Philippine Coast Guard. Abu Sayyaf militants are suspected of being behind the attack. 2017-02-20
Hawaii U.S. Senator Brian Schatz criticizes Donald Trump for calling the Philippines a 'terrorist' country. 2016-08-6
Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines presumptive president-elect, says he will allow the immediate burial of former kleptocratic dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Heroes' Cemetery in metropolitan Manila. 2016-05-23
A journalist from CNN is shot and killed in the Philippines, the 27th journalist murdered during the administration of Benigno Aquino III. 2015-06-25
Devastating fire in Manila, Philippines leaves about 8,000 people homeless and nine injured in a Makati City squatter community. 2011-04-19
Airplane cleaners in the Philippines locate a newborn male baby human which had been discarded in a toilet bin. 2010-09-12