HEADS UP: New Typhoon Alert, Hold the SM Bonus Sugar (Oct. 29)
What's happening today.
Good morning. Here's a heads up on what's happening today (Oct. 29):
- SM Bonus sugar, white and brown, are pulled out of supermarket shelves on orders of the FDA. Here's a look at how the country's food police, the FDA, works.
- Visits to cemeteries and memorial parks are banned starting today until Nov. 4. Here's how the pandemic has changed how we grieve.
- A new storm, to be named Rolly, is moving closer to the eastern Philippines, on course to track a similar path to Quinta the week before.
- In a relief for consumers during these hard times, credit card fees have started to go down to comply with a Bangko Sentral directive. Metrobank and BPI have notified their customers on the reductions.
- Jollibee, made its fans on social media crave as it teased the return of something "ultimate." Some guessed it's the Ultimate Burger Steak.
- Former Miss Universe Catriona Gray said Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, who is accused by militants of red-tagging apologized to her in writing for including her name in one of his Facebook posts.
- FamilyMart said it opened Wednesday its first ever "compact" stores in the Philippines to adapt to changing consumer behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The implementation of mandatory cashless toll collections in expressways using RFID technology was moved to Dec. 1 .
- Here's our COVID-19 tracker from yesterday.
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