Top News Stories You Need to Know

• Here’s a list of regular and special non-working holidays for next year, including seven long weekends.
• The ING App will be discontinued on Oct. 26. Here’s how you can transfer your remaining funds to other banks.
• Here’s how you can stay safe during storms and typhoons.
• Here’s your guide to PAGASA’s red, orange and yellow rainfall alerts.
• Here’s why you need to be extra careful against COVID during the rainy season.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Tropical storm Florita was on course to hit the northeast Philippines yesterday, with Signal no. 3 raised in some areas.
• Classes are suspended until today in areas flooded by Severe Tropical Storm Florita.
• Generations Y and Z are using more GCash and Maya instead of hard cash, underscoring how the pandemic accelerated the shift to cashless transactions.
• Sen. Imee Marcos is calling for a probe on the series of disappearances and killings involving women and minors over the past weeks.
• Nica del Rosario, who sang former Vice President Leni Robredo’s presidential campaign jingle "Rosas", has married her partner in civil rites in Australia.