Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Sept. 16:
PIXEL WORLD: IPHONE 13
- Apple has unveiled the iPhone 13 Mini, 13, 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max. Here’s what’s new with Cupertino’s 2021 smartphone offerings.
- Apple also unveiled pricing in the Philippines.
- Missing a marquee feature this year that feels like an “S” year, is the iPhone 13 worth the upgrade? It depends on the iPhone model you currently have among other things.
ALERT LEVEL 4 STARTS TODAY
- Metro Manila is under Alert Level 4 under the pilot test of a new quarantine classification system that starts tomorrow. Here’s what will change.
- Here’s your guide to which businesses are allowed.
- The APOR system will also be replaced by new guidelines on who can go outdoors.
- There are more freedoms for the fully vaccinated when the alert hits Level 4.
- Here’s a dictionary on Alert Levels quarantine for the second year of the pandemic.
- Here’s your guide to staycations and leisure travel. Here are the rules if you plan to go to Intramuros or Rizal Park.
- Here are the adjusted shopping mall hours so far.
- Border checkpoints will be dismantled and replaced by patrols in areas under granular lockdown, according to PNP Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar.
2022 ELECTIONS
- Politics is a game of chess and the stakes are higher in a presidential election. Here’s why politicians keep the public and their opponents guessing.
- Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno said he would run for senator next year as an independent in his second crack at a Senate seat.
- Sandro Marcos, ex-senator Bongbong Marcos’ eldest son, is running for congressman in Ilocos Norte.
- Candidates for president, vice president, senator and party-list representative will need a negative COVID antigen test before they are allowed to file their candidacies in October.
NEWS YOU CAN USE
- Here are the benefits worth nearly P6,000 for PhilHealth members who have mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 and are isolating at home.
CULTURE EXPLAINED
- On Spotify, millennials are listening to songs that evoke nostalgia to get through the pandemic. Here’s why.
- Why did many on the internet shed a collective tear over OG Blue’s Clues host Steve’s reemergence to say long overdue goodbye? We explain in this video.
NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- The owner of Lucky Me!, Betty Ang, said in a rare interview with BusinessWorld that she was working to keep prices stable during the pandemic.
- Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque fired back at his former colleagues at UP Diliman who opposed his nomination to the International Law Commission. “My curriculum vitae speaks for itself,” he said.
- Cinema ‘76 in San Juan City, a favorite of film enthusiasts, closed yesterday, underscoring how bad COVID hit movie theaters.
- Broadway has reopened in New York with Hamilton and Wicked.
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