Thursday, September 28, 2023

Let's Do The News! (September 28, 2023)

                                                                                                                           

Your daily round-up of today's news...

- PAGASA says that cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms will be experienced in Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Caraga, and Davao Region due to the trough of the Low-Pressure Area being monitored inside the Philippine Area of Responsibility.

- China called the Philippines' removal of its floating barriers "self-amusement".

- The Philippines logs 187 new COVID-19 cases while the fatality rate is steady at 1.6%.

- The Land Transportation Office issued a show cause order against the SUV owner involved in a viral road rage video in Marikina City.

- Philippine President Bongbong Marcos thanked his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron for supporting his country in the West Philippine Sea dispute.

- Almost half the Armenian population is now thought to have left Nagorno-Karabakh, according to reports.

- US Senator Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty to charges of taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen, amid calls from his fellow Democrats to resign.

- Laurence Fox and Dan Wootton were suspended by GB News over the Ava Evans insults.

- X CEO Linda Yaccarion defends Elon Musk in a tense interview at the Code Conference over the renaming from Twitter amid former head of trust and safety at formerly Twitter, Yoel Roth, raised concerns about harassment on the platform.

- Honda unveiled the N-VAN e:, the electric version of the N-VAN, coming this Spring 2024. It will make its world premiere at next month's Japan Mobility Show.

2024 Honda N-VAN e:


- The BMW 5-Series G60 received 530e and 550e plug-in hybrid variants with the former powered by a 2.0L 4-cylinder and the latter powered by a 3.0L six-cylinder producing 489PS of power and 700Nm of torque.

2024 BMW 5-Series

- The Alice in Borderland Netflix series got renewed for a third season.

- The Scott Pilgrim anime series, titled Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, hits Netflix this November 17th.

- The SAG-AFTRA and studios are resuming negotiations on October 2.

- Regal Films announced Shake, Rattle, & Roll EXTREME coming soon to theaters. This new installment of the hit horror anthology franchise stars Paul Salas, Jane de Leon, and Paolo Gumabao, among many others.

TTFN.

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