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2022–2023 Philippine sugar crisis. There has been a noted shortage of supply of sugar in the domestic market of the Philippines after a poor harvest of for the 2021–22 crop year. This led to the price increase of the commodity and there has been suspicions of traders taking advantage of the situation through hoarding and/or smuggling.
February 4. The International Astronomical Union names an asteroid 7431 Jettaguilar in honor of Jose Francisco Aguilar, a medical doctor and amateur astronomer. [12]The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation places three members of Kingdom of Jesus Christ on its most wanted list, among them its founder Apollo Quiboloy, accused of sex trafficking.
2022–2023 Philippine onion crisis. By late 2022, the price of red and white onions in the Philippines increased significantly, [1] reaching an all-time high in December at ₱ 700 per kilogram and leading people to smuggle the commodity into the country. [2][3][4]
On January 5, 2023, the Philippines rapidly increased to a record-breaking 8.1% inflation from December 2022. [226] [227] In October 2022, the Japanese yen touched a 32-year low against the U.S. dollar, mainly because of the strength of the latter. [228] [229] In November, the Japanese core inflation rate reached a 41-year high of 3.7%. [230]
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . [4] As of September 29, 2024, there have been 4,173,631 [ 1 ] reported cases, and 66,864 [ 1 ] reported deaths, the fifth highest in Southeast Asia , behind Vietnam , Indonesia ...
In its first weekly bulletin, the DOH reported 6,297 new COVID-19 cases from March 1–7, 2022, with a daily average of 899. Meanwhile, DOH also logged 615 deaths, raising the death toll to 57,066. [37] March 8 - The country reported the lowest daily cases this year with 442 new cases, pushing the total to 3,668,710 cases.
On July 27, 2022, at 8:43:24 a.m. , an earthquake struck the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.0 M w , with an epicenter in Abra province. [4] [5] Eleven people were reported dead and 615 were injured. At least 35,798 homes, schools and other buildings were damaged or destroyed, resulting in ₱1.88 billion ...
2022–2023 Philippine floods. In December 2022, a series of floods began to severely affect the provinces of Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental, and some parts of the southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The floods were caused by intense rain, which poured down on the central and southern parts of the country.