2025 in the Philippines details notable events that occurred in the Philippines in 2025.
Incumbents
President: Bongbong Marcos (PFP) Vice President: Sara Duterte (HNP) Congress: (19th): (until June 13) Senate President: Francis Escudero (NPC) House Speaker: Martin Romualdez (Lakas-CMD) (20th): (from July 28) Senate President: Francis Escudero (NPC) (until September 8) Tito Sotto (NPC) (from September 8) House Speaker: Martin Romualdez (Lakas-CMD) (until September 17) Bojie Dy (PFP) (from September 17) Chief Justice: Alexander Gesmundo
Ongoing events Impeachment of Sara Duterte Flood control projects controversy
Events
January January 3 – Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin announces President Marcos' enactment four days earlier of Executive Order No. 81 which reorganizes the National Security Council, with the Vice President and former presidents being stripped of their membership. January 6: Philippines–United States relations: The Philippines begins hosting Afghan refugees seeking to resettle in the United States as part of a July 2024 agreement between the Philippines and the U.S. to temporarily host a U.S. immigrant visa processing center. The Bases Conversion and Development Authority reassumes control over Camp John Hay in Baguio as part of a 2024 Supreme Court arbitral ruling ordering the Camp John Hay Development Corporation to vacate the property. January 8 – A state of calamity is declared in Ubay, Bohol due to an outbreak of African swine fever. January 9 – The Sandiganbayan acquits former vice president Jejomar Binay and his son, former Makati mayor Junjun Binay for graft and falsification cases related to alleged irregularities in the construction of the Makati Science High School building. January 12 – A state of calamity is declared in Jipapad, Eastern Samar, due to flooding caused by a shear line. January 13: The Iglesia ni Cristo holds the National Rally for Peace, a nationwide demonstration to express disapproval of impeachment efforts against Vice President Duterte. At the Quirino Grandstand alone, people attend the rally. The Supreme Court strikes down the Commission on Elections' policy of disqualifying prospective national candidates for lack of campaign funds as nuisance candidates following an appeal from Juan Juan Ollesca, who was deemed as such in the 2022 presidential election. January 14 – The Supreme Court strikes down a 25-year moratorium on large-scale mining in Occidental Mindoro introduced in 2008, saying that the local governments can prohibit specific mining projects but cannot do so for all large-scale mining activities within their jurisdiction. January 20: The Sandiganbayan convicts former Quezon City mayor Herbert Bautista and former city administrator Aldrin Cuña of graft over the procurement of an Online Occupational Permitting Tracking System in 2019 and sentences them to up to ten years' imprisonment. The Armed Forces of the Philippines announces the arrest of Chinese national Deng Yuanqing and two Filipino accomplices for conducting surveillance on sensitive installations. January 23 – The national government confirms that 17 Filipinos are among the 25 crew members of M/V Galaxy Leader who have been released from captivity by Houthi rebels after being held off Yemen since the seizure of the boat in the Red Sea in November 2023 in connection to the Israeli attacks in Gaza.Citations (MV Galaxy Leader):
January 25 – The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines designates as national shrines the EDSA Shrine in Quezon City, the Sampaloc Church in Manila, and the Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Aranzazu in San Mateo, Rizal. January 27: President Marcos grants executive clemency to former Iloilo City mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, who had been charged with graft before the Ombudsman. The Department of Justice releases a January 10 resolution withdrawing 98 charges of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide against former health secretary Janette Garin filed over the Dengvaxia controversy. January 28 – The Sandiganbayan convicts Mary Ann Maslog of graft in relation to a 1998 textbook scam involving officials of the Department of Education, Culture, and Sports and sentences her to up to ten years' imprisonment. The conviction is issued after its original 2019 date had been postponed due to Maslog faking her death and going into hiding under a false name until her discovery and arrest in 2024.
February February 3 – Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. declares a food security emergency on rice due to rising prices. 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. February 5 – Sara Duterte becomes the first Vice President of the Philippines to be impeached after 215 members of the House of Representatives vote to support an impeachment complaint against her that include charges of corruption, plotting to assassinate President Marcos and other officials, involvement in extrajudicial killings and incitement to insurrection and public disorder. February 6 – A Beechcraft King Air 300 aircraft contracted by the US Department of Defense for reconnaissance missions crashes in Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, killing all four people on board. February 7 – A court in Winnipeg, Canada dismisses a 2018 defamation case filed by the Iglesia ni Cristo against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over a series of television reports on alleged abuses within the group, citing its non-compliance of court rules. February 11–21 – A state of calamity is declared in Puerto Princesa and the municipalities of Aborlan, Brooke's Point and Narra in Palawan due to flooding caused by a shear line. February 12: The Sandiganbayan acquits Janet Lim-Napoles and former Agusan del Sur representative Rodolfo Plaza of graft in relation to a case of the PDAF scam involving in public funds. Myrna Sularte, the highest-known ranking official of the New People's Army in Mindanao and a member of the politburo of the Communist Party of the Philippines, is killed in an encounter with soldiers in Butuan. February 18: President Marcos signs into law Republic Act No. 12122, fixing the term of the Commandant of the Philippine Coast Guard to a maximum of three years. The Sandiganbayan dismisses an ill-gotten wealth case filed in 1987 by the Presidential Commission on Good Governance (PCGG) against former president Ferdinand Marcos and first lady Imelda Marcos concerning motor vehicles and appliances acquired by co-accused Fernando Timbol, citing an unreasonable period of inaction by the plaintiff. February 21 – The Financial Action Task Force removes the Philippines from its gray list of countries with serious money laundering issues. February 24: The Sandiganbayan dismisses a petition by the United Coconut Planters Life Assurance Corporation (COCOLIFE) against the transfer of the company's 255 million shares in the United Coconut Planters Bank to the government, saying that the said assets were acquired as part of government-imposed coconut levies. The municipality of Baggao, Cagayan, is declared "insurgency-free" by the government. February 25 – The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) announces the arrest of two Chinese nationals and three Filipino accomplices for conducting surveillance on sensitive installations in Metro Manila, including at Malacañang Palace. February 27 – A segment of the Cabagan–Santa Maria Bridge in Isabela collapses as four vehicles pass over, injuring six people.
March March 4 – An FA-50PH fighter jet of the Philippine Air Force crashes into Mount Kalatungan in Bukidnon during an operation against the New People's Army, killing its two crew. March 5 – President Marcos signs into law Republic Act No. 12124 or the Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP) Act, expanding access to tertiary education particularly among working professionals. March 7 – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources cancels its joint venture agreement with Blue Star Construction Development Corporation, which manages the Masungi Georeserve in Tanay, Rizal, citing multiple violations by the latter. March 11 – Former president Rodrigo Duterte is arrested at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay for crimes against humanity due to an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC). He is transported by plane that night to the ICC headquarters in the Netherlands. March 19 – Eight people, including five Chinese and a Cambodian, are arrested on suspicion of spying and kidnapping in Grande Island in Subic Bay. March 20: The Supreme Court orders the eviction of Romeo Jalosjos and Dakak Beach Resort Corporation from the Dakak Beach Resort in Dapitan, Zamboanga del Norte, after ruling that they had profited from the property despite not paying rent to the landowner in the preceding 20 years. Philippines–Timor-Leste relations: The Court of Appeal of Timor-Leste overturns the planned extradition of expelled Negros Oriental representative Arnie Teves to face charges in the Pamplona massacre. March 24 – Finance Secretary Ralph Recto, Bureau of Customs commissioner Bienvenido Rubio, and Bureau of Internal Revenue deputy commissioner Marissa Cabreros sign the implementing rules and regulations for Republic Act No. 12079, allowing foreign tourists in the Philippines to obtain refunds on value-added tax for locally purchased goods worth at least (around US$50), provided the items are taken out of the country within 60 days of purchase. March 24–26 – Manibela holds a nationwide transportation strike in protest over allegations of misrepresentation by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) of consolidation rates in the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program. March 25 – The Ombudsman imposes a six-month suspension on Marikina Mayor Marcelino Teodoro, Vice Mayor Marion Andres, and 13 members of the Marikina City Council as part of an investigation into the alleged misuse of () in PhilHealth funds. March 31 – Mitzel Silva-Campo becomes the first woman to become a rear admiral of the Philippine Coast Guard.
April April 3 – China–Philippine espionage cases: Three Filipino nationals are arrested in China, on suspicion of spying for Philippine intelligence. April 4 – The National Telecommunications Commission revokes Now Telecom's operating license, citing failure to comply with critical regulatory and operational requirements and the firm owing in unpaid regulatory fees. April 10: President Marcos signs into law Republic Act No. 12145, reorganizing and renaming the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) into the Department of Economy, Planning and Development (DepDev). The Ombudsman orders the dismissal of Albay Governor Edcel Greco Lagman for receiving money from jueteng operations when he was Vice Governor. April 11 – President Marcos signs into law Republic Act No. 12160 or the Philippine Islamic Burial Act, regulating Islamic funerals in the Philippines. April 15: Philippines and weapons of mass destruction: President Marcos signs into law Republic Act No. 12174 or the Chemical Weapons Prohibition Act, prohibiting the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons in the Philippines. Carrier vessel MV Hong Hai 16, which has carrying sand and its 25 crewmen, capsizes off Rizal, Occidental Mindoro. Six of 13 Filipinos and eight of 12 Chinese are later rescued. Until April 20, nine bodies are recovered while two are reported missing. April 24: President Marcos issues Executive Order No. 86, authorizing the issuance of specific visas for digital nomads to the Philippines.