Sources: Times of India
The Department of Health announces that the Philippines have reported their first two cases of the Omicron BA.2.75 variant in two individuals from Western Visayas. 2022-08-2
Journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to safeguard the freedom of expression". 2021-10-8
An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 strikes Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. 2021-09-26
The Philippines receives its first shipment of 193,050 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine distributed through the COVAX initiative. 2021-05-10
A grenade is lobbed in a Zamboanga mosque in the Philippines, killing two people and injuring four others. No group has claimed responsibility. 2019-01-30
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 United Kingdom pledges US$1 billion for the Philippines to help with the reconstruction due to the destruction of Typhoon Haiyan. 2013-12-24
Nationwide protests are held across the Philippines over the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam. 2013-08-26
More than ten thousand families are evacuated in the Filipino province of Cotabato due to heavy rain. 2013-06-15
Albert del Rosario, the Philippines Secretary of Foreign Affairs, wants to withdraw Filipino peacekeepers from the Golan Heights subsequent to Syrian rebels kidnapping four troops. 2013-05-10