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Six people died in a blaze that ripped through a house in a residential area in the Philippine capital Manila before dawn on October 15, the Philippine Bureau of Fire Protection said.

The Philippines recorded 102,619 dengue fever cases in the first seven months of 2022, surging 131% from a year earlier, its Health Department said August 15.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved up to 4.3 billion USD to help finance the construction of nearly 55 km of modern suburban railway line connecting Metro Manila with the city of Calamba in the Philippines.

Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate from their homes near Taal volcano in the Philippines on March 26 after an eruption sent ash and steam hundreds of metres into the sky.

The Philippines reported 18,638 new COVID-19 cases on January 28, raising the national tally to more than 3.51 million, according to the country’s Department of Health.

The national task force against COVID-19 of the Philippines will extend the duration of pandemic prevention and control restrictions imposed in Metro Manila and other provinces until the end of January.

The Philippines has decided to ease quarantine restrictions in Metro Manila from September 8 to balance containing the pandemic and supporting the economy, while Cambodia has seen an increase in its daily COVID-19 cases.

The Philippine Government has extended coronavirus restrictions in several regions while some provinces in Laos have put lockdown on certain districts in the face of community transmission of COVID-19.

The Philippine government on August 18 revised its economic growth projection for 2021 from 6-7 percent to 4-5 percent due to the re-imposition of lockdown in Metro Manila to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country, Xinhua news agency reported.

Philippine President Rodrigo Durterte on July 30 approved a lockdown on Metro Manila in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 and protect the country’s health care system.

The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) on July 28 confirmed 4,478 COVID-19 infections, pushing the country’s total caseload to 1,566,667.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung attended the East Asia Summit (EAS) Senior Officials’ Meeting, held virtually on June 24.

Philippine Secretary of Justice Menardo Guevarra said the country's investigators have logged a complaint against former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of German payment firm Wirecard, Jan Marsalek, regarding fraud and cyber crime accusations.

Phnom Penh capital of Cambodia has been placed under a lockdown for the first time since the emergence of COVID-19 cases in the country at the end of last year.

FPT Software, a member of FPT Corporation, has recently announced that it will open its third office in the Philippines on April 13, positioning itself as a major IT player in the nation.

The Manila Times, one of the leading national broadsheets in the Philippines, on March 23 ran an article highlighting Vietnam’s effective anti-COVID-19 formula.

The Philippines’ exports of garments and hard goods could reach 2 billion USD in 2021 as local garment factories expect to receive up to 500 million USD worth of new orders from global fashion brands.

Five people have died when a six-hour fire destroyed around 300 houses in Manila's Tondo district in the Philippines, the country’s fire-fighting force said on February 21.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Batangas province on the Philippines' main Luzon Island in the morning of December 25.

Vietnam seems to be an only bright spot in Asia, which ably balanced public health and economics right from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Manila Times of the Philippines.