ANC Features the Biggest Stories in PH Covered for the 2018 Yearender
2018 YEARENDER – The ANC featured the biggest stories in the Philippines (PH) that they have covered in 2018.
The year 2018 is about to end. Currently, it is only three(3) days left before another year unfolds and many are surely preparing for a new chapter.
Aside from preparing for the New Year celebration, lots of people surely contemplate on how their year 2018 passed or what are the changes it brought to their lives and the country as a whole.
Undeniably, some of the biggest stories in the history of PH happened in 2018. As the 2018 yearender, the ANC featured the biggest PH stories that they have covered this year.
Based on a report on ABS-CBN News, here is the list of the biggest PH stories covered by ANC as the 2018
- January 1 – TRAIN Law takes effect, prices of goods to go up
- January 13 – Mayon volcano starts spewing ash, lava
- February 8 – U.N. International Criminal Court to conduct probe on PH
- February 12 – Government imposes a total deployment ban to Kuwait
- March 14 – Duterte withdraws PH from ICC
- April 17 – Sr. Patricia Fox is detained, her legal battle begins
- April 26 – Boracay is closed down
- May 11 – Kuwait signs MOA with PH
- May 11 – Chief Justice Sereno ousted via quo warranto
- May 16 – The deployment ban to Kuwait is lifted
- May 21 – Sotto replaces Pimentel as Senate President
- May 21 – Third priest “killed” in 6 months
- June – Series of local officials “killed”
- July 23 – Alvarez ousted, Arroyo is new House Speaker
- July 23 – President Duterte gives 2nd SONA
- August 6 – Duterte signs the Bangsamoro Organic Law
- August 25 – Teresita De Castro is new Chief Justice
- August 31 – Trillanes amnesty is voided
- September – Inflation hits near 10-year high at 6.7%
- September 15 – ‘Ompong’ is strongest typhoon to hit PH in 2018
- September 17 – Itogon landslide “kills” almost a hundred
- September 17 – ‘The Butcher’ Jovito Palparan convicted
- September 20 – Naga, Cebu landslide “kills” more than 70
- October 6 – AFP declares end of war with MILF
- October 26 – Boracay reopens
- November 8 – Mislatel is country’s new telco player
- November 9 – Imelda Marcos convicted of 7 counts of graft
- November 20 – Chinese President Xi Jinping visits PH
- November 20 – Cops behind Kian delos Santos’ death convicted
- December 7 – Former Sen. Bong Revilla acquitted of plunder
- December 11 – Balangiga bells back in PH
- December 12 – Congress extends martial law in Mindanao
- December 17 – PH’s Catriona Gray is crowned Miss Universe
