Sources: BBC
Seven militants, including a field commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), are killed in an encounter in Cotabato, Philippines, involving MILF factions caught in a clan feud. 2025-11-24
The Philippines imposes price ceilings on rice in order to counter increasing costs and alleged market manipulation, setting the maximum prices for regular-milled and well-milled rice, at 41 link=yes (US$0.72) and 45 ($0.80) per kilogram, respectively. 2023-09-1
Transport groups in the Philippines decide to end a one-week strike on its second day, following a meeting with Palace officials in relation to the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program. 2023-03-7
Six people are killed, including the vice mayor of Aparri, Cagayan, Philippines, when their car is ambushed in Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, by unknown gunmen. 2023-02-19
A former mayor of Lamitan, Basilan, Philippines, and two others are killed in a mass shooting at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Metro Manila. The perpetrator is arrested. 2022-07-24
Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila announces the cancellation of 20 flights due to bad weather in the Philippines caused by Tropical Storm Marce. 2016-11-25
The Philippine government places more than two dozen provinces on alert before Typhoon Haima makes landfall over Luzon. Haima, downgraded by the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System to a Category 4 storm, landfalls Cagayan province in the island's northeast. Weather forecasters expect the storm to impact up to 2.7 million people before veering northwest toward the Chinese coast on October 21. 2016-10-19
Floods in Central Vietnam, triggered by Typhoon Sarika's heavy rains, kill at least 24 people with 4 others missing. Sarika has killed at least two people and displaced more than 150,000 in the Philippines. 2016-10-17
Typhoon Sarika (Karen) arrives at Luzon, Philippines, with the storm's future direction predicted to be toward Vietnam. 2016-10-15