HEADS UP: Carmageddon is Back, Should You WFH Permanently? (July 23)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, July 23:

NEWS EXPLAINED

• Carmageddon is back as more people are called back to offices and the free toll at Skyway 3 ends. Is this a case to ask your boss for permanent remote work?
• Here’s how Tarantadong Kalbo’s clenched fist cartoon sparked the #Tumindig resistance movement online, affirming the inextricable link between art and politics.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Here’s everything you need to know about the Mobile Number Portability Act that takes effect on Sept. 30. It will allow consumers to switch between Globe, Smart and DITO without changing their mobile numbers
• Monsoon season heralds flash floods. If you must wade through it, here’s how to stay safe from leptospirosis.

2022 ELECTIONS

• The Lacson-Sotto tandem’s possible senatorial ticket for 2022 has been revealed and it includes their current and former colleagues in the chamber plus a former elections official.
• The Lacson-Sotto tandem was borne out of their desire to provide an alterantive to voters and to snwer this question for the country: Where are we going?

VACCINE NEWS

• The single-dose J&J COVID jab is available in Muntinlupa City, exclusively to seniors.
• The country received yesterday 1.5 million more doses of the Sinovac vaccine as it moves to thwart the spread of the Delta variant.

PIXEL WORLD

• Audio app Clubhouse has dropped its invite system and is now open to all.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The DOH confirmed 12 new local infections of the Delta variant, highlighting the need to keep the guards up to prevent another surge.
• The ICC, the world’s only war crimes tribunal, can investigate “government actors” in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, the Supreme Court has ruled.
• Some victims of the drug war are being exhumed after the leases on their graves expired. The campaign’s targets were mostly poor.
• Typhoon Fabian (In-Fa) continues to enhance the Southwest Monsoon as it drifts east of Luzon, PAGASA said.
• The president should have the power to suspend VAT on fuel during national emergencies, according to a bill filed by Sen. Imee Marcos.
• In Sweden, two inmates hostaged their guards in exchange for pizza. The nine-hour hostage-taking ended after the junk food ransom was delivered.
• Deadly floods across the globe, from China to Germany, shows how climate change is causing extreme weather events.