Monday, April 2, 2018

Let's Do The News! (April 2, 2018)



- While Senate president Koko Pimentel doesn't see any clashes between Davao Mayor Sara Duterte’s party and the ruling PDP-Laban, he said senatorial bets who are eyeing to run under or coalesce with Hugpong ng Pagbabago could only be “accommodated” within the Davao Region (Region 11) because the presidential daughter’s group is not a national but only a regional party.

- EPA chief Scott Pruitt's position is in danger after reports that he paid below market rate to live in a condo owned by a lobbyist who deals with issues overseen by his agency, lawmakers and a former Trump official said in television interviews on Sunday.

- US President Donald Trump said that there will be no deal to legalize the status of young adult immigrants called Dreamers and he said the U.S.-Mexico border is becoming more dangerous. Meanwhile, Mexico’s presidential front-runner, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, launched his campaign close to the border on Sunday demanding respect for Mexicans and signaling he may take a harder line toward Trump if he wins the July 1 election.

- France demanded Israel to show restraint following its military response to Palestinian demonstrations on the Gaza-Israel border that killed at least 15.

- Half of the Japanese votes don't support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration amid suspected cronyism and cover-up, opinion polls by Japanese media showed. The Yomiuri newspaper’s survey issued on Monday showed that the disapproval rating for Abe’s Cabinet rose to 50 percent from early March, compared with 47.5 percent in the Kyodo news agency’s survey published on Sunday.

- China's Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth's atmosphere and burnt up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, according to the Chinese space authority. The “vast majority” of the craft burnt up on re-entry, at around 8:15 a.m. (0015 GMT), the authority said in a brief statement on its website, without saying exactly where the remnants might have landed. The remnants of Tiangong-1 appeared to have landed about 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Tahiti, said Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at Australian National University.

- Former Guatemalan strongman, Efrain Rios Montt, hounded by charges of genocide for decades, passed away at the age of 91, leaving bitter memories of his brutal rule of the Central American nation during its civil war. Thousands of mostly rural Maya civilians were victims of massacre, rape and torture under a “scorched earth” policy implemented during his 17-month rule between 1982 and 1983 at the height of the Cold War-era conflict.

- The March update of the GT SPORT video game is now out, featuring the return of Tsukuba Circuit, and additional vehicles, among many others.

- At last week's New York International Auto Show, Acura unveiled the new-generation RDX, featuring the return of the VTEC Turbo engine in an Acura via the new 2.0L DOHC VTEC engine with Dual Variable Timing Cam mated to a 10-speed AT, as well as Torque Vectoring SH-AWD.

2019 Acura RDX
- Genesis showcased their Essentia Concept at the NY Auto Show.

Genesis Essentia Concept

TTFN!!!

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