Let's Do The News! (January 7, 2022)

                     

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- Senator Richard J. Gordon expressed sadness at the passing of National Artist for Literature, Frankie Sionil Jose.

- The Malacanang is one with the rest of the Philippines in mourning the passing of National Artist for Literature Frankie Sionil Jose.

- The United Kingdom has identified a rare case of bird flu in a human.

- GML secured a contract to deliver 140 electric school buses to the US state of California.

- Toyota teases GR GT3 Concept, which is set to appear at next week's Tokyo Auto Salon.

- Honda unveiled the sixth-generation StepWGN range which will go on sale this Spring.

- E3 cancels 2022 in-person event.

- PSY's Gangnam Style music video has reached 4.3 billion views, a decade after its release.

- The funeral for the late actress Kim Mi Soo will be held privately today. Mi Soo died on the 5th of this month. She appears in the controversial K-drama series Snowdrop, currently airing on JTBC.

- The upcoming Battlestar Galactica movie will exist in the shared universe with the TV reboot. The revival of the popular sci-fi series was first announced last 2020.

- Samoa Joe got released by the WWE again. His last appearance was on WWE NXT before the 2.0 relaunch where he defeated Karrion Kross to win the NXT TakeOver 36, only his champion status is short-live due to "undisclosed injuries."

- The New York Times is purchasing The Athletic sports news site for 550 million US Dollars.

TTFN.