Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Let's Do The News! (February 4, 2025)

                                

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

- Retired Major General Isagani Nerez was named by the PBBM administration as the new chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.

- The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), opposes the P200 wage hike.

- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), completes maintenance work on Davao City Diversion Road.

- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), addresses 106,000 worker concerns in 2024.

- The Trump administration delays imposing tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods for a month following conversations with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.

- China announces retaliatory tariffs of 10-15% on certain US imports, as the Trump administration's levies on Chinese goods came into effect.

- A 14-year-old girl was found guilty of attempted murder after she stabbed two teachers and a student at a school in Ammanford, Wales.

- Cisco utilized algorithmic jailbreaking techniques to evaluate DeepSeek R1 against 50 random prompts from the HarmBench dataset. The results were concerning, as DeepSeek R1 did not successfully block any harmful prompts.

- The all-new Audi A6 range will be unveiled this March 4th, signaling a rollback on Audi's naming strategy.

- A 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 R was auctioned for £42.75 million.

- A significant U.S. shareholder of Fuji Media Holdings Inc. has demanded the resignation of Hisashi Hieda, stating that the long-time executive is ultimately accountable for the series of issues affecting the company's broadcasting subsidiary.

- Patrick Mahomes commented on Luka Doncic's shocking move from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis.

- The MLB fired umpire Pat Hoberg for shared betting accounts.

- Actress Lee Joo Sil passed away at the age of 80. Joo Sil played Jung-ho's mother in the Netflix phenomenon Squid Game.

- Funeral arrangements for the late Meteor Garden actress Barbie Hsu are planned by her family. Meanwhile, Jerry Yan and Ken Zhou of F4 from the TV series pay tribute to Barbie Hsu.

TTFN.

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