Your daily round-up of today's news:
- Super Typhoon Betty entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility at 0200 hours local time. As of 0400 hours, Betty was located 1,320km east of Central Luzon, moving west-northwest at 25kph. It is expected to maintain its direction over the weekend before turning northwest and slowing down on Monday.
- The fire damage sustained by the iconic Manila Central Post Office building was valued at an estimated 300 million PhP, according to the GSIS.
- PH President Bongbong Marcos rejected a proposal to impose a total deployment ban to Kuwait after the Gulf state suspended the issuance of visas for new Filipino workers.
- The DENR aims to complete the land tilting in Baguio and Cordillera by 2026.
- US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a top Republican, says he'll continue to work on a debt deal as both sides of the political spectrum struggle to reach a deal to raise the government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling before the end of this month. Recently, the US Treasury has extended the debt ceiling deadline until the 5th of June.
- Lloyd's of London has pulled out from the UN-backed climate alliance.
- The US jury says Google owes Sonos $32.5 million in a smart-speaker patent case.
- Credit Suisse was ordered to pay the Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili $926 million by a Singapore court in one of the biggest legal awards made against the bank.
- Twitter is not paying its PR firm's bills following Elon Musk's buyout, according to the lawsuit.
- Serbia deployed its troops to the Kosovo border following violent protests.
TTFN.
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