Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Dec. 15:
NEWS YOU CAN USE
- BDO was hacked while its clients were sleeping, thinking that their money was safe with their OTPs. Here are extra steps you can take to protect your accounts.
- Tropical Storm Odette will likely intensify into a typhoon before slamming into the Caraga-Eastern Visayas area tomorrow with “destructive” winds. Here’s how to prepare.
- The reimbursement process after the BDO hacking will depend on whether the account holder was “innocent” or “negligent”, the Bangko Sentral said.
- Here’s a directory of presidential, vice presidential and senatorial aspirants in the 2022 elections with verified social media accounts that the Comelec is requiring to better police campaign ads and posts.
ELECTION NEWS
- Sen. Bong Go has formally withdrawn from the presidential race, giving his boss, President Rodrigo Duterte, room to anoint a successor if he so wishes.
- Vice presidential aspirant Sara Duterte has endorsed six senatorial bets, including her father.
CULTURE EXPLAINED
- Here’s why the Christmas holidays and romantic comedies go together.
NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- The central bank said the endangered Philippine Eagle replaced World War II heroes in the P1,000 bill redesign because the raptor represents unity.
- Phivolcs has allayed fears of a tsunami in the country from a Magnitude 7.6 earthquake in northern Indonesia.
- Vaccinations in areas on the path of storm Odette will be postponed to next week, the DOH said.
- Elon Musk is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, in recognition of how he embodies the technological shifts that are changing people’s lives.
- From killer heatwaves to floods, here’s how climate change worsened extreme weather events in 2021 with scientists warning that the worst is still to come.
- The Omicron variant poses a very high risk, the WHO said, even as scientists could not definitely say that it causes more severe disease.
- Kim Kardashian passed a qualifying exam called “Baby bar” on her fourth try, putting her one step closer towards her dream of becoming a lawyer.
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