Let's Do The News! (August 29, 2017)

- Senator Antonio Trillanes IV cornered former Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service Chief Colonel Niel Anthony Estrella during the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee's hearing regarding the shipment of smuggled shabu from China.

- President Rodrigo Duterte revealed why former Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo was rejected by the members of the Commission on Appointments last August 16. During a press conference, the President cited that Secretary Taguiwalo has been accused of exploiting the fund of the 4Ps, also known as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, to aid the rebel group New People’s Army.

- The House of Representatives is preparing enough budget to implement House Bill 5633 or the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act by June 2018.

- The Illinois state became the 10th state in the United States to legalize the "automatic voter registration" alongside the District of Columbia.

- Civil rights groups kicked off a week of planned local events earlier to express support for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which is now under threat by the Trump administration.

- The BMW i3 has now been improved for 2018 model year with new design, new choice of power outputs, and the sporty new i3s variant.

2018 BMW i3

2018 BMW i3s

- The Death Note madness doesn't stop from last week's Netflix movie release as it will spawn a 12-hour audio drama based on the anime series, translated in either English or German, due next year.

- A certain TV station in Nagoya ends their Sunday morning anime block after four decades.

- Game of Thrones' Kit Harington stars in the upcoming three-part drama inspired from the infamous 1605 Gunpowder Plot, titled Gunpowder, due to air on the BBC this fall.

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