Here's a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, June 8:
NEWS YOU CAN USE
- Are parties banned? More precisely, superspreader events are banned, here are the gatherings that qualify as superspreaders and must be avoided.
- Keep checking your Tinder app for updates, a new “block contacts” feature is rolling out for you to avoid awkward run-ins online with your ex (or exes) and family.
- Vaccines are rolling out for A4 or economic frontliners. President Rodrigo Duterte likened the development to a “light at the end of the tunnel.” Here’s how you can register for a jab as A4 in Taguig.
TRENDING NEWS
- A Gen Z photographer’s thesis is trending for challenging beauty conventions by recreating the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo with the most unlikely of muses.
2022 ELECTIONS
- Ex-Defense Sec. Gilbert Teodoro explains why he is breaking his 10-year-long political hiatus after a humbling defeat in the 2010 elections against his cousin, former President Noynoy Aquino.
NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Sports history was made. Nineteen-year-old golfer Yuka Saso became the first Filipina to win the U.S. Women’s Open.
- Pinoy pride on the trade front. The Philippines started exporting okra to South Korea, calling the vegetable “high value.”
- More needs to be done for “genuine equality,” Vice President Leni Robredo said in her pride month message.
- The first shipment of products that fill up IKEA Philippines, has arrived in the country. Operations start in the fourth quarter.
- The Chocolate Kiss is shutting down its pastry business, too. It will bake cakes only until June 22.
- For inclusivity. Manila has opened its first Muslim cemetery.
- Right on schedule, the BGC-Ortigas link bridge will open by Independence Day, June 12.
- Meet Juan Bikes, who travel the country on two wheels during the pandemic to cure their wanderlust.
- Where’s the vaccine? Four decades later, the world has yet to see immunization against AIDS.
