Let's Do The News! (October 4, 2017)

- President Rodrigo Duterte signed the law postponing the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections to the second Monday of May next year.

- Some lawmakers are unhappy about being pawns to "fake news" against seven lawmakers who did not sign the resolution denouncing teenage killings. Senators Vicente Sotto III and Manny Pacquiao, in their statements, said they had been offended by reports that they and the five others didn't sign Senate Resolution 516 denouncing extrajudicial killings.

According to National Bureau of Investigation Cybercrime Division chief Manuel Eduarte, there is no government agency monitoring fake news on social media. The Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media led by Sen. Grace Poe opened the hearing on the filed resolutions by several senators on the “Proliferation of Fake and/or Misleading News and False Information.”

- The Bureau of Immigration said that Marilou Danley, the alleged companion of the Las Vegas shooter left the Philippines on Tuesday evening. Danley was identified by the police as the companion of 64-year-old gunman Stephen Paddock. She was initially a person of interest in the Las Vegas shooting that left at least 59 people dead and injured more than 500 others on October 1.

- A Catalan official  threatens Brussels to keep independent region in the European Union in the aftermath of the Catalonia Referendum last Sunday that a majority of citizens voted for independence and later ended in violent clash that left 800 people injured. Catalonian president Carles Puigdemont announced the region would break off from Spain within two days after receiving the final referendum results from abroad.

- South Sudanese government forces and rebels clashed in a northeaster state with both sides claiming victory, as East African countries attempt to restart talks aimed at ending the four-year civil war.

- Toyota previews their next-generation Crown with a concept model coming at this month's Tokyo Motor Show. The next Crown will be the first rear-wheel drive Toyota using the TNGA platform and it will arrive in the summer of 2018.

2017 Toyota Crown Concept

- Toyota ended their Australian car production after 54 years as the last Camry rolled off the Altona assembly line.

- Nissan will showcase their Leaf Nismo Concept and the Serena Nismo at this month's Tokyo Motor Show.

TTFN!!!