- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte heads to Singapore for the 33rd ASEAN Summit and related summits next week as he will be discussing the economy, illegal drugs, and terrorism.
- Senator Gregorio Honasan II accepts the Department of Information and Communications Technology chief position. President Rodrigo Duterte, in a media interview in Boracay, Aklan on Thursday, confirmed he offered the post of DICT secretary to Honasan.
- A Filipino-American was among the 12 people killed in the horrific shooting inside a bar in Thousand Oaks, California on Wednesday night (Thursday morning in Manila).
- The Trump administration revoked the press credentials of reporter Jim Acosta in retaliation for his difficult questions about the refugee caravan. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a doctored video of Acosta's confrontation with the President, in which he appears to push away an intern that is attempting to seize the mic from him. The video Sanders shared has been shown to have been deliberately and maliciously edited and sped up to make Acosta looked like he pushed the intern.
- Spoof billboards appeared in the British capital on Thursday purportedly organized by Russian military intelligence officers “to celebrate their role” in the 2016 Brexit referendum — to the bemusement of Londoners.
- A plan to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar is premature and the refugees are “terrified” about leaving Bangladesh where they sought refuge, dozens of aid agencies working in the region said Friday.
- Greyhound racing is banned in Florida by the end of 2020.
- Seven tenants were killed and 11 others injured when a blaze ripped through a three-storey studio complex in Seoul.
- BMW revealed that their upcoming M8 will have a V8 BiTurbo engine producing 600PS of power and paired with the M xDrive all wheel-drive system that works like today's BMW M5.
- Skoda teases their upcoming Scala hatch with an interior sketch and it's ready for December 6 unveiling.
- Filipino MMA camp Team Lakay took home the most awards at the 2018 Global Martial Arts Awards held at the JW Marriott Hotel in Singapore on Thursday. Former ONE lightweight world champion Eduard Folayang was named Martial Arts Hero of the Year.
- President Rodrigo Duterte reissues threat against ABS-CBN's franchise renewal in 2020.
- Miss World Philippines 2018 Katarina Rodriguez speaks out about women experience sexual harassment. Some Miss Earth 2018 candidates revealed this week they were sexually harassed during the pageant.
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