Here's a Heads Up from Reportr.World on news that you need to know today, April 14:
NEWS YOU CAN USE
- The filing of tax returns with ther BIR is tomorrow. Here's how you can pay your dues via GCash.
- If your driver's license or student permit expired during the ECQ and MECQ period, it's valid until July 30, as long as you're inside the NCR Plus bubble.
- Meralco is extending its no disconnection policy in the bubble to April 30. That's also the last day of the MECQ.
- If you're in Cebu City, today is a non-working holiday to mark 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines.
CULTURE EXPLAINED
- Muslims around the world started Ramadan yesterday. Here's what you need to know about Islam's holy month.
MONEY EXPLAINED
- Here's how cryptocurrencies grew into a $2 trillion market 12 years since the first digital coun was minted.
NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- On the second day of the MECQ bubble yesterday, there were 8,571 new COVID cases.
- Expressing "utmost displeasure," the DFA summoned China's ambassador to the Philippines to demand that Chinese ships leave Julian Felipe Reef.
- President Rodrigo Duterte and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, held a teleconference yesterday to discuss a wide range of topis including trade and tthe COVID-19 pandemic.
- Ex-President Joseph Estrada tested negative for the coronavirus as he continues to recover from COVID pneumonia.
- According to 65% of respondents in a SWS poll, a president's health is a public issue.
- Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque should have just answered a question on how he got a hospital room to get his COVID treated instead of dismissing the query as "unchristian," said Bishop Broderick Pabillo.
- Europe has passed the grim one million mark in COVID deaths.
- The UK virus variant is more contagious without ccausing more serious COVID, a Lancet study has confirmed.
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