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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

Six people are killed as Typhoon Noru makes landfall on the island of Luzon, Philippines.
2022-09-26

The Philippines reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a person who travelled from Brazil.
2021-03-13

The Philippines' GDP contracts 9.5% in 2020, its first annual contraction since 1998 following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the country's worst economic performance since records began in 1947.
2021-01-28

Almost 2,000 families are displaced in Mindanao region of the Philippines due to clashes between government forces and Islamist militants.
2016-11-29

The Philippines Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana suspends participation in any joint patrols with the United States in the disputed South China Sea. Lorenzana will ask a detachment of 107 U.S. troops providing counterterrorism assistance on the southern island of Mindanao to leave as President Rodrigo Duterte requested.
2016-10-7

The Pope cuts his Tacloban trip short as an approaching typhoon threatened the city in the Philippines. This cyclone may also affect Francis's scheduled closing Mass on Sunday in the capital, Manila.
2015-01-17

At least 16 people are killed and 13 injured in the Philippines in a terrorist attack by Islamic group Abu Sayyaf.
2014-07-28

At least 12 people have been killed or wounded in a clash between two Muslim families in the province of Lanao del Sur in the southern Philippines.
2013-07-21

Communist rebels in the Philippines kill 10 soldiers as they returned to base to observe a Christmas truce.
2010-12-15