00:01Countries are tracking cruise ship passengers who disembarked before the Hantavirus was detected.
00:06Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. mediates a meeting between Cambodia and Thailand as the two countries manage border tensions.
00:14DOST Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. is the highest paid cabinet official in 2025.
00:19Education tool Canvas is hacked, disrupting classes ahead of finals in the United States.
00:25And, astronomers get their clearest look yet at the surface of a planet beyond our solar system.
00:38Countries worldwide seek to prevent the spread of the Hantavirus after an outbreak on a cruise ship.
00:43Authorities are tracking those who disembarked before the virus was detected and anyone who had close contact with them since.
00:49Three people, a Dutch couple in the German National, died in the outbreak on the MV Hondius.
00:55The World Health Organization says five people are confirmed to have contracted the virus, with another three suspected cases.
01:01The ship's operator says all passengers who disembarked in St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean where the trip made
01:07a stop on April 24 have been contacted.
01:10This included people from at least 12 countries, among them seven British citizens and six from the United States.
01:16Hantavirus is usually spread by rodents but in rare cases can be transmitted person to person.
01:2238 Filipino crewmates are on board the ship but Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Kakdak said Thursday, May
01:287, the Filipinos have not been infected by the virus.
01:31All 38 Filipino crew have reportedly not been infected.
01:37Hindi sila natapuan ng antivirus.
01:40However, we continue to monitor their situation.
01:45Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. mediates the trilateral meeting with counterparts from Cambodia and Thailand as the two countries manage
01:53border tensions.
01:54Hostilities blew up at the border between the two countries in July 2025 over a long-standing dispute.
02:01Marcos took the role of ASEAN chair in January 2026.
02:04He was joined by Cambodian Prime Minister Hoon Manet and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charanvirak Hoon in a brief press
02:11conference in Cebu.
02:12There were many candid discussions about the border situation between Cambodia and Thailand.
02:19Although they have both reaffirmed their importance of maintaining open communication, exercising restraint, avoiding actions that may escalate tensions, and
02:31continuing efforts towards peaceful dialogue and constructive engagement.
02:36Both countries' leaders are expected to continue talks to prevent escalation.
02:42Department of Science and Technology Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. tops the Commission on Audit's 2025 report on salaries and allowances.
02:50Solidum is the highest-paid Marcos Cabinet official for a second consecutive year, having received a total pay of 6
02:56.66 million pesos in 2025.
02:58This is P281,000 higher than in 2024.
03:02His compensation from his post as DOST chief is broken down to P3.52 million pesos in basic pay,
03:09P1.62 million pesos in allowances,
03:11P1.09 million pesos in bonuses, incentives, and benefits,
03:15and P264,000 in discretionary expenses.
03:18Former Justice Secretary and now Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulia ranks second in the list, having received P5.976 million pesos
03:26as Justice Chief in 2025.
03:29Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma came third with P5.966 million pesos,
03:34while Social Welfare Secretary Rex Gachalian came fourth with P5.494 million pesos.
03:41The education tool Canvas is hacked, disrupting classes ahead of finals in the United States.
03:47Canvas is used by schools, colleges, and universities for grades and other class materials.
03:51Multiple college student newspapers reported Thursday, May 7, the incident blocked students from accessing the app.
03:58The Harvard Crimson said Canvas redirected users to a message from hacking group Shiny Hunters.
04:03The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper for the University of Pennsylvania,
04:07says Shiny Hunters posted on Penn's Canvas page last week that any university that did not wish to have its
04:13data released should contact the group before May 12.
04:16Duke University student newspaper The Chronicle, as well as student newspapers from UCLA and the University of Nebraska,
04:22also reported their institutions were affected.
04:25The breach involved usernames, email addresses, student ID numbers, and private messages between users.
04:31After a second incident where attackers defaced login pages,
04:35parent company Instructure says Canvas and other related sites were placed in maintenance mode.
04:42Astronomers get their clearest look yet at the surface of an exoplanet,
04:45a planet beyond our solar system with NASA's James Webb Telescope.
04:49Webb gathered data on the exoplanet called LHS 3844b or Quaqua,
04:54the word for butterfly in a Costa Rican indigenous language.
04:57The rocky exoplanet has a diameter about 30% larger than Earth
05:01and a surface that may resemble that of Mercury.
05:04Its lack of a discernible atmosphere and its extreme temperatures,
05:07fiercely hot on one side and frigid on the other,
05:09seem to render it uninhabitable.
05:11The planet orbits a star smaller and less luminous than the sun,
05:15located about 49 light-years away.
05:17Astronomer Laura Kreidberg says,
05:19this planet is not a nice place and is a hellish barren rock.
05:23Webb was launched in 2021, became operational in 2022,
05:27and has since enabled revolutionary advances in the understanding of exoplanets.
05:33And that's today's wrap.
05:35I'm JC Gutinga.
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