Friday, August 3, 2018

Let's Do The News! (August 3, 2018)



- The daughter of the self-claimed Pork Barrel Queen Janet Lim Napoles has already fled the Philippines. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the Bureau of Immigration has informed him that her daughter, Jeane Catherine, is no longer in the country.

- The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo urged the Presidential Electoral Tribunal anew to “resolve” its motion for reconsideration regarding the use of the 25-percent threshold in the election protest filed by losing candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

- Senate Majority Leader Migz Zubiri hailed the construction of a P700-million rehabilitation center in his bailiwick Bukidnon province. President Duterte was scheduled to lead Friday afternoon the inauguration and turnover ceremony of the Northern Mindanao Wellness and Reintegration Center in Barangay Casisang, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon.

- The family of a Soviet defector who died in Salisbury in 2001 is living in fear following the recent poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in the same English city, according to his son. Nikita Pasechnik, whose scientist father Vladimir Pasechnik defected to Britain in 1989 and suffered a stroke 12 years later, said his relatives are now “scared to death”.

- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday in an attempt to stave off a diplomatic crisis between Washington and Ankara over the detention of an American pastor in Turkey.

- Former prisoners in Russia speak out over a widely shared video of guards beating an inmate shocked the country.

- Japan's LGBT community responds to politician Mio Sugita's discriminatory statements.

- Tyre company Michelin is working on a new tyre-making technology that used 3D printers to recycle and re-tread tyres, according to reports.

- Hennessey Performance celebrates their 10,000 tuned cars with a special Heritage Edition Mustang which was tuned to have 808HP of power and 918Nm of torque.



- Former child actor CJ Ramos got arrested in a drug buy-bust operation.

- Senate President Vicente Sotto III draws flak over his "hipo" remark.

TTFN!!!

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