- The Philippine Senate will ‘do its best’ to pass bill creating Department of Disaster Resilience before the 17th Congress ends its sessions. The magnitude 6.1 earthquake that jolted Luzon on Monday afternoon prompted anew calls for the creation of a single agency which would be assigned to respond to the needs of communities in times of calamities.
- The Commission on Elections has observed a high voter turnout during the first week of the overseas absentee voting for the May 13 midterm polls.
- Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines president and Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles led the holy mass and solemn declaration of the San Antonio de Padua Church in Pila, Laguna as a national shrine, the 25th in the country.
- The Trump administration's crackdown on visa overstays will target mostly on African and Sian nations. US President Donald Trump ordered the secretaries of State and Homeland Security to develop plans to crack down on countries whose citizens are most likely to overstay their visas, a long-term problem that is now the biggest driver of illegal immigration into the United States. In 2018, more than 569,000 foreigners overstayed their visas, according to Homeland Security data.
- New Zealand and France will cooperate at a Paris summit next month aimed at stopping social media being used to organise and promote terrorism. Political leaders and tech company executives have been called to a meeting — to be co-chaired by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron — in Paris on May 15.
- South Korea announced a proposed 6.7 trillion won ($5.87 billion) supplementary budget to tackle unprecedented air pollution levels and to boost exports bruised by weak external demand amid the Sino-U.S. trade war.
- NASA’s robotic probe InSight has detected and measured what scientists believe to be a “marsquake,” marking the first time a likely seismological tremor has been recorded on another planet. The breakthrough came nearly five months after InSight, the first spacecraft designed specifically to study the deep interior of a distant world, touched down on the surface of Mars to begin its two-year seismological mission on the red planet.
- The Aston Martin DBS Superleggera now spawns an open-top Volante variant.
- Renault unveils the Kangoo ZE Concept which previews their next-generation compact van.
- According to Famitsu readers, Chrono Trigger is the best video game of the Heisei era.
- The cast of the soccer drama "The English Game" has been announced.
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