Thursday, September 23, 2021

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

                                        

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law taxing POGOs.

- OFWs urged the DFA and POEA to lift the deployment ban to Kurdistan so they can work again.

- Family lawyers claim that the body of the late artist Bree Jonson shows signs of struggle.

- Senator Richard J. Gordon said he would decide on October 8th on whether or not will be running for the May 2022 elections.

- Meralco expects the price of electric vehicles to match internal combustion engine-powered vehicles by 2024 in the Philippines.

- US and French presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron to meet in Europe in October over submarine row.

- The UN General Assembly adopts political declaration on the fight against racism.

- The UN warned that 16 million Yemenis are on the verge of starvation.

- The World Health Organization is nominating chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for a new term.

- Thousands have escaped from a town in west Myanmar after clashes with the junta troops.

- Faraday Future announces backing from Geely.

- Environmentalists are boycotting Toyota over the company's slowing EV transition.

- K-Pop boy group BTS visits New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in presenting gift from the South Korean government.

TTFN.

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