Let's Do The News! (March 1, 2018)

- A utility worker of the Philippine National Police died a few months after being administered with the anti-dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia. According to the PNP General Hospital, the 20-year-old utility worker was given the shot in December last year in Camp Crame. A few days later he spoke of feeling muscle pain and sore throat.

- Any potential deals between Manila and Beijing on energy exploration in the South China Sea should be agreed with a company and not the Chinese government, according to the presidential spokesperson. China claims most of the South China Sea, a key route in global trade and resource-rich territory whose parts are subject to competing claims with Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines.

- Survivors of the second-deadliest US public school shooting brought to tears by empty seats and missing friends at roll call as they returned to their Florida high school two weeks after 17 students and teachers were killed there. Upon emerging from a half-day of classes intended to ease their return after the tragedy, some of the roughly 3,000 teens who attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, described their emotional day.

- Mexico's economy minister met with top US trade officials through the latest push to renegotiate the NAFTA trade deal, as concerns about steel added to trade tensions between the two countries.

- McLaren Special Operations made a carbon themed masterpiece based on the recently unveiled but sold-out Senna flagship hypercar.

McLaren Senna Carbon Theme by MSO

- Fiat will present a special 124 GT Abarth at the Geneva Motor Show this month, featuring OZ rims and a carbon top.'

Fiat 124 GT Abarth

- The 2013 dystopic action thriller flick Snowpiercer gets a TV show adaptation with Graeme Manson, co-creator of Orphan Black, as the showrunner.

- Actress Gemma Chan lands a villain role in the upcoming film adaptation of Captain Marvel.

- One shot, one kill. The femme fatale assassin from Overwatch, Widowmaker, gets her own figma and it's available to order. This figma arrives this December.

figma Widowmaker

TTFN!!!