Here are the top stories making headlines in the Philippines and from around the world today, February 11, 2020.
Court gives ABS-CBN time to explain
Supreme Court gives ABS-CBN Corporation 10 days to comment on the quo warranto petition filed by the Office of the Solicitor General
Pinoy Running Man
GMA Network, Seoul Broadcasting System to produce localized version of ‘Running Man.’
Earlier today, Philippines’ GMA Network signed a contract with Korean broadcaster SBS to co-produce ‘Running Man Philippines’, a localized version of the popular variety program of the same name. The cast is yet to be announced and is expected to start airing in 2021.
The Philippines will be the third country to have its RM adaptation after China and Vietnam.
Coronavirus, given official name
2019 nCoV ARD “very grave threat to the world,” warns WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus. Currently, the virus has been detected in over 25 countries and there have been more or less 40,000 cases globally.
Apart from that, World Health Organization has officially named the 2019-novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease or 2019-nCoV ARD as “COVID-19” or Coronavirus Disease-19.