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2023 in the Philippines details notable events that occurred in the Philippines in 2023. On July 21, 2023, President Bongbong Marcos announced that the government will formally lift the COVID-19 state of public health emergency, marking the end of the three years of the pandemic. The emergency was officially lifted the following day.
March 16 – The Philippines wins the Guinness World Record for the largest human lung formation, with 5,596 participants attending an event to mark World Tuberculosis Day at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila. [417] March 22 – Maria Gigante is crowned Universal Woman 2024 in Cambodia. [418]
A fire at a three-story residential building in Quezon City, Philippines, kills eight people and injures one other. (AP) Two people are killed when a Robinson R44 helicopter crashes on a private property in Uvalde , Texas , United States.
The storm is a Category 5, but is not expected to make significant landfall in the Philippines at its current strength. Mawar 9th typhoon since 1950 to reach Category 5 equivalent status in May.
A DOD-contracted aircraft flying an "intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance" mission crashed in the Philippine Province of Maguindanao del Sur, killing all four on board, U.S. Indo-Pacific ...
February 3 – Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. declares a food security emergency on rice due to rising prices. [16]February 4 – Anwar Saluwang, the mayor of Nabalawag in the Special Geographic Area of Cotabato, is arrested in Davao City for violating a nationwide gun ban imposed as part of the 2025 Philippine general election.
The Philippines has no military engagements with Taiwan and it does not see future engagements with the democratically-governed island, Manila's armed forces chief Romeo Brawner told foreign ...
January 4 – President Duterte signs Republic Act No. 11510, institutionalizing the alternative learning system (ALS). [2] [3]January 18 – The Department of National Defense announces its unilateral termination of its 1989 accord with the University of the Philippines which took effect three days earlier over claims that the New People's Army is recruiting members in the universities' campuses.