Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Let's Do The News! (December 11, 2018)



- All three Balangiga bells that were taken by American soldiers as war booty from Balangiga, Eastern Samar in 1901 have returned in the Philippines. These historic bells were airlifted to the Philippine Air Force headquarters in Villamor Airbase and will be returned to Balangiga later this week.

- The Department of Justice has sought to turn as state witness a co-accused of self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa in a drug case he is facing before a Manila court.

- Vice President Leni Robredo is elated over the restoration of P100 million to her office’s budget for 2019.

- The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has intensified its operations against taxi drivers who snob passengers this Christmas season. Transport regulators started to conduct simultaneous crackdown this month on “snob” or unruly cabbies through the agency’s “Oplan Isnabero” program in some transport hubs among malls in Metro Manila.

- US authorities arrested 32 people at a demonstration that was organized by a Quaker group on the border with Mexico, according to authorities. Demonstrators are demanding an end to detaining and deporting immigrants and showing support for migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum seekers.

- A top executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei sought release from Canadian detention, offering to submit to strict electronic monitoring, as Beijing escalates its protests over her arrest on a US warrant.

- The refusal of the United States and Saudi Arabia to embrace a landmark environmental report has unsettled UN talks to breathe life back into the Paris climate pact, according to negotiators and observers.

- British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday postponed a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal to avoid a crushing defeat, saying she would head to Europe for further talks — but the EU warned it would not reopen the agreement.

- Japanese authorities officially charged former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn with financial misconduct, essentially for under-reporting his income. Both Ghosn and former representative director Greg Kelly were indicted for violating the Japan financial instruments and exchange act, namely for making false disclosures in five annual reports leading up to the fiscal year that ended in March 2015.

- The Panzer Dragoon video game has been reborn in 2019 with Forerver Entertainment co-creating and publish the upcoming remake.

- Toyota teases their GR Super Super GT concept ahead of next month's Tokyo Auto Salon appearance.



- The first-ever AKB48 Group Asia Festival 2019 has announced and it will be held in Bangkok's Impact Arena on the 27th of January, 2019.

- Hyper agent Gridman from SSSS.GRIDMAN TV series gets its own Nendoroid in normal and DX version. Both are available to order and arriving in June 2019.



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