DMW extends aid to bereaved families, kin of 2 slain OFWs in Myanmar quake

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00:00A serene and solemn Lenten Tuesday evening to all. Denise Osorio here, homegrown and pleased to bring you PTV News Now.

00:11Talks on our stories at this hour.

00:14The Department of Migrant Workers has reached out to the bereaved family and kin of the two slain Filipino migrant workers

00:20who lost their lives in the 7.7 magnitude killer quake that hit Myanmar and close neighbors on March 28.

00:28Migrant Workers Big Boss Hans Leo Kakdak paid the bereaved families and their relatives and friends a visit

00:34of late to extend the President and his entire government's deep sympathies and financial support.

00:40He told the grieving families the government is working hard to have the remains of the two deceased shipped back to the country post-haste.

00:47Besides financial or monetary assistance, post-arrival support has also been assured once the shipping and handling of the remains are complete or finished.

00:55For migrant Filipino quick survivors in Myanmar, the government also promised them financial or monetary aid

01:02by way of the Department's Action Fund.

01:05As of press time, the official casualty count in Myanmar has climbed to 3,645 along with more than 5,000 injured

01:13and 148 still missing or unaccounted for up to now.

01:18Personal remittances hit $3.02 billion in February thanks to increased payouts

01:26from land-based and sea-based Filipino migrant workers, up 2.6% from the same period last year.

01:34Likewise, cumulative remittances also went up by 2.7% from $6.1 billion reached in January to February 24

01:42to $6.27 billion in February this year.

01:50U.S. President Donald Trump has made himself unmistakably clear.

01:54He will roll back or deep-six all his predecessors' programs on green and sustainable energy and EV manufacturing

02:01so he could revive or resurrect the fossil fuel industry and drill, baby, drill.

02:05At the recent 2025 Chicago Auto Show, the latest electric vehicle offerings that made their debut

02:11probably had took front and center for their swan song.

02:15VOA's Cain Farable has more.

02:18It sounds like an engine, and it might feel like an engine.

02:25But what propels the new Dodge Charger isn't an internal combustion engine at all.

02:31It's a fully electric vehicle, or EV.

02:35And while the sounds and smell of tires burning rubber are real,

02:41the hallmarks of a throaty exhaust are artificial.

02:48I think you will forget that it's an EV.

02:50Ryan Nogoti is vice president for interior design at Stellantis, which owns the Dodge brand.

02:56The Charger has long been an icon of the gasoline-powered American muscle car era.

03:01Nogoti says turning it into an EV, with certain models exceeding $60,000, was a leap of faith for Dodge.

03:09We know that that's where, you know, the country's heading, you know, and it takes time.

03:14A tax credit of up to $7,500, part of the Biden administration's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act,

03:20helped make pricey EVs manufactured in America more affordable.

03:25President Donald Trump has signaled plans to end the credit.

03:29Nogoti says those incentives weren't a major factor in the Charger's EV development.

03:33You're getting a different customer coming to this vehicle, right?

03:37That's not their first and foremost thought.

03:40Even so, incentives helped fuel an EV buying surge last year in the U.S., Cox Automotive reports,

03:47with about 1.3 million new vehicles sold, a 7.3 percent increase over sales in 2023.

03:53Toyota has 19 electrified vehicles, so that includes hybrids, plug-in hybrids, fuel cell EV, and electric vehicles.

04:02Matt Troyer is a product specialist with Japanese automaker Toyota.

04:05Almost 30 percent of what we sell is now some kind of electrified vehicle.

04:10None of which qualify for the current federal EV tax credit.

04:14Toyota's only fully electric vehicle in North America, the BZ4X,

04:19also doesn't qualify because it's manufactured outside the United States.

04:23In December, Toyota announced it was cutting the price of its BZ4X by up to $6,000.

04:30We're seeing that electric vehicles are getting cheaper.

04:33Megalactora is the electric vehicle officer for the state of Illinois,

04:36which is continuing a $4,000 state rebate for purchasing a fully electric vehicle.

04:42She joined Melissa Washington, a senior vice president at energy supplier ComEd, at an auto show news conference.

04:48We have $100 million in rebates that are being made available in 2025 for customers to adopt EVs.

04:57And that's going to be for all customers, our residential customers, our commercial customers, and public sector customers.

05:02While uncertainty surrounds the future of federal incentives to buy EVs,

05:07Troyer says customers tell him they're more focused on the other benefits of EV ownership.

05:12Less expensive to drive it, to maintain it too, and they love doing good things for the environment.

05:19Kane Fairbaw, VOA News, Chicago.

05:21At this moment, let's turn to my colleague in PDV's Baguio City Studios for what's brewing of late in the Cordilleras.

05:31Caudry?

05:32Nainbag Arabi, Tunggal Holy Week, mapili na iti Lucky Summer Visitor iti Baguio City,

05:38kan Benguet.

05:41Na iti flagship project iti Baguio Correspondent and Broadcasters Club,

05:45kasuporta iti panangitaluda iti turismo iti siyudad.

05:48Ito a first-time visitor iti Baguio City,

05:51iti mapili kan maipaayan iti red carpet treatment,

05:53bayat iti all expense paid a panagpasyada.

05:56Pasyaran na iti Lucky Summer Visitor,

05:58na iti pagpasyaran iti Baguio City, kan Benguet.

06:00Baro a destinasyon na itaatawan,

06:02katipa nagpasyarda, IJ Atok Benguet.

06:05Siyempre, dapat first time nilang umakyat ng Baguio City.

06:09Yun yung pinaka-first na criteria natin.

06:12Second, dapat willing silang sumunod yung ating tour schedule

06:16kasi meron tayong nakaset na tour schedule para sa kinala.

06:20Which is, yun lang naman yung parang kapalit ng red carpet treatment natin

06:24na ibibigay natin sa kanila.

06:26Iti sabali pa yung adamag agpal palagip ti Komisyon on Elections

06:31bagu yung isa na panagkampanya dagi ti kandidato,

06:34kabayatan ti Monday, Thursday, kan Good Friday.

06:38May tunos na iti iti resolusyon ti Komisyon

06:41at mangi paupawin iti anyaman nakita ti panagkampanya

06:44when no partisan political activity, kabayatan ti Observation.

06:48Mabaling daman niya agkampanya into Black Saturday, kan Easter Sunday.

06:51Siguro ni ti Komilek posible ang mamulta, maibalod kan madisqualify dagi ti kandidato

06:56ng aglabsing maituno sa iti Omnibus Election Code.

06:59No adamati may reklamo in panamnamati opisina ti panagimbestigarda ka Dagitoy.

07:05Warning, Thursday at Friday lamang po, no?

07:08Ang bawal mga kampanya.

07:10So kung pwede i-observe natin, sundin natin,

07:13pagpahinga muna tayo sa Monday, Thursday at Good Friday

07:19para pagdating ng Black Saturday, eh sige.

07:22Kapag re-charge na po tayo, continue with your campaign caucus.

07:28Dagita-dagiti damgamag, Manipo DTTV, Cordillera,

07:32siya ni Audrey Villana, na Imbag-Arabi.

07:34Many thanks, Audrey.

07:37And so we've come to the end of the show.

07:39Join us on you tomorrow night for evening news breakers

07:42and never forget to always stay connected by keeping it right here.

07:45Denise Osori here wishing you all much cooler and restful night ahead.

07:49And thank you for watching PTV News Now.

07:51PTV News Now.

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