Thursday, March 16, 2023

Let's Do The News (March 16, 2023)

                       

                                                                                   

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- PHIVOLCS has downgraded the Mayon Volcano Alert Level to Level 1.

- A M4.7 quake struck Masinloc, Zambales, and was felt in parts of Metro Manila.

- The PH Congress plans to use excise tax from petroleum for the Mindoro oil spill cleanup.

- North Korea recently fired an ICBM ahead of South Korea-Japan talks.

- UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt insists that the national budget will get young parents and over-50s to return to work and it will not just benefit the rich who are saving for retirement. 

- Plans to construct the world's first octopus farm raise concerns among scientists over the welfare of octopuses. The farm in the Canary Islands would raise about a million octopuses annually for food, according to reports.

- The US government threatens to ban TikTok unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance was sold to another company.

- South Korea's Ministry of Industry has recently announced the lifting of the export regulations of semiconductor materials from Japan and the withdrawal of the WTO complaint. The move comes ahead of the historic talks between the two countries,

- Volkswagen showcased its ID.2all concept car which previews a new electric compact hatchback coming this 2025.


- Return to Silent Hill live-action movie will star Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson. Filming for the new movie begins next month.

- HYBE boss Bang Si Hyuk broke his silence about the agency's feud with Kakao, the enlistment and contract renewals of BTS members, and more.

- Ong Seong Wu will be enlisted this mid-April, as confirmed by his agency Fantagio.

- Netflix wins defamation suit over its "Making a Murderer" documentary series.

TTFN.

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