Sources: Times of India
Metro Manila, Philippines, is placed under a state of calamity due to flash floods caused by Typhoon Gaemi. 2024-07-24
Eleven people are killed when their pickup truck collides with a passenger bus in Abulug, Cagayan, Philippines. 2024-07-11
President Bongbong Marcos formally ends the declaration of COVID-19 as a public health emergency in the country. 2023-07-22
The Philippines reports its first cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India in two Filipino seafarers who travelled to Oman and the United Arab Emirates. 2021-05-11
Authorities diagnose six more cases of the Zika virus in the provinces of Cebu and Iloilo in the Visayas and Laguna province near Metro Manila, Philippines. 2016-09-20
The Abu Sayyaf militant group threatens to behead a Canadian hostage, a Filipina hostage, and a Norwegian hostage. 2016-05-4
The Supreme Court of the Philippines asks the government to respond to a petition seeking to repeal a law banning same-sex marriage in the country. 2015-06-30
Philippines President Benigno Aquino III distances himself from a botched raid against a terrorist, Zulkifli Abdhir, that killed around 50 people, including police officers and Abdhir, while pledging support for a peace process with the Moro people. Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno urges the public to continue to support the peace treaty. 2015-01-29
A fugitive rebel captain in the Philippines, Nicanor Faeldon, accused of participation in the Oakwood mutiny, turns himself in after three years. 2010-07-8
Six Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants, including "most wanted" leader Albader Parad, die after coming into contact with troops at the foot of Mount Tucay in Maimbung, Sulu on Jolo in the Philippines. 2010-02-21