The match is eventually abandoned within the third quarter with Australia winning by default as a result of lack of eligible Filipino gamers. Four Australian gamers and nine Filipino players had been suspended, Philippines head coach Chot Reyes and assistant coach Jong Uichico are sanctioned, while the Australian and Philippine national federations are fined by FIBA. June 8-12, 3×3 basketball – The 2018 FIBA 3×3 World Cup take place on the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan. July 2, Basketball – A bench-clearing brawl between the Australia and the Philippines males’s nationwide basketball teams happen throughout the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifier on the Philippine Arena in Bocaue. Mongolia emerges as champions with Thailand finishing in second place. May 19-21, Multi-sport – The 2018 Philippine National Games take place in Cebu City and varied cities and towns across the Cebu province. Duterte adds that his Cabinet and Congress may conduct a research on the potential of putting up “only a small area for tourism” in Boracay and the majority of the island for land reform. April 30 – The Department of Tourism receives their ₱60,000,000 ad placement given to government-owned People’s Television Network for airing it on Ben Tulfo’s program Kilos Pronto produced by Bitag Media Unilimted, Inc. (by which the blocktimer sells its manufacturing time to the network); the contract was not supported with proper paperwork such because the Memorandum of Agreement and Certificate of Performance opposite to Section 4 of Presidential Decree 1445 and COA Circular No. 2012-001. Teo was later resigned on May eight due to the controversy.
May 14 – The Barangay and Sangguiang Kabataan elections are held. May 30 – President Duterte declares his plan to make all the island of Boracay a land reform space, saying that he needs to prioritize Boracay’s first inhabitants. August 16 – A passenger aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 working as Xiamen Airways Flight 8667, crashes at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Metro Manila, skidding off the runway while making an attempt to land. January 23 – The Supreme Court approves the funding for the ₱3.8-billion Motorcar License Plate Standardization Program (MVPSP), clearing the way for the release to motorists of 700,000 license plates turned over by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to the Land Transportation Office (LTO) as constitutional. February 23 – The Philippine Olympic Committee holds elections for the publish of President and chairman after the 2016 elections outcomes had been declared null and void by the Pasig Regional Trial Court.
February 19 – The Senate committee on national defense and safety begins its probe on the P15.5 billion-Frigate Acquisition Venture (FAP) of the Philippine Navy with Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go in attendance and a number of other Cabinet members present to assist him. April 26 – Boracay closes to vacationers for six months and undergoes rehabilitation. April 3-8, Ice hockey – The Philippines hosts its first International Ice Hockey Federation-sanctioned occasion, the highest division of the 2018 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia on the SM Mall of Asia ice skating rink in Pasay, Metro Manila. September 1-October 27, Affiliation soccer – The inaugural staging of the Copa Paulino Alcantara-the Philippines’ home football cup competitors-is held. The Romanians are the top seed of their Davis Cup group and are stocked with what we can consider a excessive-end player: Marius Copil. The Philippines finished second in Group B, but lost to eventual champions Vietnam on 4-2 aggregate in the semi-finals. June 23 – Diwata-2, the second microsatellite underneath the Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Microsatellite program, is deployed to area.
July 25, Association soccer – Ceres-Negros wins their second consecutive Philippines Football League title with three video games to spare, following their 6-1 victory over Global Cebu in the 22nd round. February 3, Boxing – Jerwin Ancajas knocks out Mexico’s Israel “Jiga” González in the tenth spherical to retain the International Boxing Federation junior bantamweight crown at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. July four – The AFP clashes with militants from the ISIL-affiliated Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), in Maguindanao after the latter try and occupy a city heart. Former president Benigno Aquino III and former funds secretary Butch Abad face a House investigation into their administration’s deployment of Dengvaxia, a dengue vaccine, that was then at the middle of a well being scare. Former Army common and politician Jovito Palparan is convicted for the kidnapping and disappearance of scholars Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño. December 11 – The Balangiga bells, which had been taken by the United States Army from Balangiga, Eastern Samar in 1901 as battle trophies through the Philippine-American War, arrive at Villamor Air Base in Pasay after 117 years of U.S. February 28 – The United States Department of State provides seven organizations, including the Maute group, to its record of foreign terrorists and terrorist organizations attributable to their connection to the Islamic State.