Friday, March 1, 2024

Let's Do The News! (March 1, 2024)

                    

                                                                        

Your daily round-up of today's news...

- The PH Department of Education has received several complaints about school personnel selling and requiring learners to buy booklets or workbooks for Catch-Up Fridays, as well as other school activities. DepEd reiterates that such acts are strictly prohibited.

- Philippine President Bongbong Marcos stood firm in front of the Australian Parliament that the Philippines would not surrender an inch of territory. 

- Religious leader Apollo Quiboloy played to the public and gave a riddle for his location with a prize of 1000 pesos.

- Senator JV Ejercito believes that problems in NAIA will be resolved now that San Miguel Corporation is the operator of the said airport.

- A magnitude 5.2 quake hits the eastern coast of Chiba Prefecture with a depth of approximately 30km. No tsunami alert was issued.

- Hundreds of Russians risk arrest to pay tribute to the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

- Former UK Labour MP George Galloway won the Rochdale by-election. Galloway overturned a Labour majority after the party withdrew its support for its candidate over remarks he made that were widely alleged to be antisemitic.

- Marcus Osborne was given a rare whole-life sentence for the murder of his ex-partner and her boyfriend in Huddersfield, UK.

- A total of 23 places in Malaysia are under Level 1 heatwave alert, including Perlis and almost the entire Kedah, while Pokok Sena in Kedah is under Level 2 heatwave alert.

- Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner dismisses 'anonymous speculation' after files leaked ahead of the F1 2024 season. His statement was forced by a stunning off-track development: As the second practice was going on for the Bahrain Grand Prix, files were emailed to nearly 200 people in the F1 paddock, including Liberty Media, F1, the FIA, the other nine team principals, and multiple media outlets.

- Nacon and KT Racing announced the Endurance Motorsport Series video game coming this 2025.

- The Renault Scenic E-Tech wins European Car of the Year 2024.

- The all-new Maserati GranCabrio was unveiled and it's the open-top version of the second-generation GranTurismo.

2025 Maserati GranCabrio

- Anime studio 8-Bit will become a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Filmworks this April 1st.

- The Netflix original animated movie Ultraman Rising will stream this June 14.

- A new Fushigi Dagashiya Zenitendo TV series is airing this April 5th.

- SEVENTEEN member S.Coups has been exempted from military service, according to PLEDIS.

TTFN.

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