- The Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Department of the Interior and Local Government will collaborate to ensure that only legitimate impoverished families are accorded with the benefits from the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program.
- Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong confronted Philippine National Police chief Oscar Albayalde for “lying” about his involvement in the controversial drug bust in Pampanga in 2013.
- The Iglesia Ni Cristo further expanded its Lingap sa Mamamayan program to India.
- The Philippine Army disclosed that the Japanese government has sought to bolster ties between the two countries, particularly in the area of military cooperation.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host President Xi Jinping for an “informal summit” this week, India and China confirmed as growing differences dog the two Asian giants’ historically prickly relations.
- Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing and signed several agreements in the first official visit since the two nations established diplomatic ties last month.
- A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist appeals against sentence as protests intensified further.
- Lawyers for House Democrats urged a judge to release secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as Congress conducts an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
- Former US Attorney General Edwin Meese III has been awarded by US President Donald Trump the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Meese became the 75th Attorney General in the United States four years under the Reagan administration.
- British PM Boris Johnson is making a last-ditch effort to convince Irish leader Leo Varadkar to engage with his plans for a customs border following a collapse of talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
- The BMW M8 now comes in the Gran Coupe variant with the same V8 Twin Turbo engine as its equivalents.
- Nissan named Makoto Uchida as their new CEO, Ashwani Gupta as their new COO, and Jun Seki as vice-chief operating officer.
- Sony announced that their next Playstation will be launched in the 2020 holiday season and it will feature a new controller with haptic feedback and adaptive triggers.
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