Let's Do The News! (April 23, 2021)

   

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- The rescued and rehabilitated Philippine Eagle named Tagoyaman has been released back into the wild.

- The Philippines has lodged two new diplomatic protests against China over the continued "lingering" in the West Philippine Sea.

- The 37-year-old LRT-1 is expected to get a major boost as LRMC and DOST-MIRDC ink knowledge-sharing pact

- The US Senate passes a bill combating surging anti-Asian hate crimes during the pandemic.

- NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completes its second Mars flight, achieving a maximum altitude, longer duration, and sideways movement.

- International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva urges a "robust" price on carbon to combat climate change.

- The McLaren Group headquarters in Woking, Surrey, has been sold for 170 million British Pounds and it will continue operations within the two-decade lease.

- Thailand to ban sales of petrol and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035.

- FIA reveals regulations for the new electric GT category.

- Former Kentucky Wildcats guard Terrence Clarke was killed in a car accident.

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