Friday, February 10, 2023

Let's Do The News (February 10, 2023)

                                                                                  

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- The PBBM administration named former agriculture undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian as the undersecretary for Rice Industry Development of the Department of Agriculture.

- Japan vows dynamic support to the Philippines in order to become an "upper-middle income status" country this 2025. This comes as Philippine President Bongbong Marcos meets Japanese Emperor Naruhito.

- New University of the Philippines president Atty. Angelo Jimenez has been formally sworn in with a ceremony that took place at the Quezon hall lobby at UP Diliman.

- The Philippine Supreme Court has dismissed the 840-million peso coco levy case against Juan Ponce Enrile and others after over three decades.

- The death toll from the M7.8 quake that rattled the Turkiye-Syria border hits the 17,000 mark.

- Ukraine officials said that the expected Russian offensive has begun around eastern towns like Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Vuhledar.

- The F1 Academy all-female driver category announced Jessica Edgar participating in the new racing series under the Rodin Carlin racing team.

- W Series driver Bruna Tomaselli will make her Stock Car racing debut for Motortech Competices in Brazil.

- THE IDOLM@STER franchise gets its first arcade game since 2005 with THE IDOLM@STER TOURS arcade game coming this summer. The announcement comes ahead of this weekend's M@STERS OF IDOL WORLD 2023 concert.

- Singapore will host the 2025 World Aquatics championships.

- The MVP jersey that the late Kobe Bryant wore during the 2007-08 season has been auctioned for $5,849,700, a record for any Kobe Bryant memorabilia, making it the second most expensive basketball jersey ever sold.

- Famed music composer Burt Bacharach passed away at the age of 94.

TTFN.

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