Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Let's Do The News (March 21, 2023)

                          

                                                                                   

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- Several advocacy groups are urging the MalacaƱang to include e-motorcycles in the executive order that grants import incentives to electric vehicles.

- Russia and Chinese leaders Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are discussing the latter's proposals to end the war in Ukraine at the start of their high-level talks in the Kremlin.

- Finland was named the happiest country in the world while war-torn Ukraine has the most acts of kindness, according to the United Nations.

- US President Joe Biden signed into law a bill requiring the release of intel on potential links between the COVID-19 pandemic and a Wuhan lab.

- The death toll from the Gabon ferry disaster has reached 26.

- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha has abolished the parliament and set up a May general election.

- Dodge unveiled the final Last Call special model during the Roadkill Nights event, the Challenger Demon 170. Running on E85 ethanol, a first for a muscle car, through the newly improved supercharged V8 HEMI engine, it produces a record-breaking 1025hp of power and 945lb-ft of torque, sprinting to a record-breaking 0-60mph time of 1.66 seconds and a quarter-mile time of 8.9 seconds at 151mph.

2023 Dodge Challenger Demon 130

- Tesla released the beta update for its Full Self-Driving feature while addressing recall issues.

- Rolls-Royce unveiled the final special edition Wraith Black Arrow, which is limited to 12 units.


- Noh Jung Ui and Seo Bum June announced that they will be leaving SBS's music variety show Inkigayo.

- Tennis legend Martina Navratilova announced she's cancer-free nearly four months after she was diagnosed with throat and breast cancer.

- BBC's Doctor Who franchise announced Doom's Day, a new multi-platform story project featuring a new character named Doom, played by comedienne Sooz Kempner.

TTFN.

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