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A former top United States official states that the Department of Defense covertly admits to conducting a mass disinformation campaign targeting the Philippines using social media bots and fake accounts to discredit the safety of Chinese CoronaVac vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, following public denial of involvement in June.
2024-07-26

A Philippine Air Force SF.260 training flight from Sangley Point Airport in Cavite City, Philippines, crashes into a paddy field in Pilar, Bataan, killing two people on board.
2023-01-25

The Philippines reports a record 15,310 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which includes 3,709 cases that were not reported since March 31. This brings the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 771,497.
2021-04-2

A Filipino container ship runs aground on a coral reef near Raroia, Tuamotus, French Polynesia. France sends an aircraft to survey the scene in response to a request for help by Raroia's mayor.
2018-06-25

Typhoon Goni leaves seven people dead and two people missing as it moves from the Philippines towards Taiwan and Okinawa, Japan.
2015-08-22

A new species of tarsier is discovered in Dinagat, Philippines.
2014-08-20

182 inmates escape from a provincial jail in Leyte, Philippines, which was previously affected by Typhoon Haiyan, citing squalid conditions and a lack of food. 148 are recaptured hours later.
2014-01-30

Typhoon Usagi hits the northern Philippines causing flooding and landslides and disrupting transport, communications and power supplies.
2013-09-21

A Canadian man shoots dead two people in a court in Cebu, Philippines, and seriously injures another.
2013-01-22