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

- Senator Joel Villanueva lauded the rescue of 22 overseas Filipino workers recently from poor living and working conditions in Denmark.

- BUHAY Party-List Rep. Lito Atienza urged President Duterte to order the compulsory pre-shipment inspection of all “containerized imports” to thwart large-scale smuggling of illegal drugs through the Port of Manila.

- The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said that the number of families affected by typhoon “Rosita” which hit Northern Luzon on Tuesday has already reached more than 36,000.

- Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro considers following US President Donald Trump's proposal to move their embassy to Jerusalem. It would become the third country to have an embassy in Jerusalem after the US and Guatemala.

- A Malaysian financier at the center of a corruption scandal surrounding state fund 1MDB maintained his innocence Friday after the US unveiled criminal charges against him and two ex-Goldman Sachs bankers.

- The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted its 27th annual resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba after a failed bid by Washington to amend the text to push Cuba to improve its human rights record.

- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet approved draft legislation on Friday to open the door to more overseas blue-collar workers in sectors grappling with labor shortages, a controversial policy shift in immigration-shy Japan.

- BMW adds a convertible variant of the new 8-Series.

2019 BMW 8-Series Convertible

- Pokemon Sun and Moon's Incineroar, Street Fighter's Ken, and Super Mario's Piranha Plant are coming to the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game for the Nintendo Switch.

TTFN!!!