Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The 9,988-kilometre Asia Direct Cable, landing at PLDT's Nasugbu station in Batangas, went live in February 2025, linking the Philippines to Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and China.

Goldman Sachs ended its policy of taking companies public in the US and Western Europe only if they had at least two diverse board members, one of them a woman, citing legal developments after Nasdaq's diversity rule was struck down.

Red Dog Culture House releases Tian Guan Ci Fu Duanpian, a series of short bonus episodes set within the Tian Guan Ci Fu (Heaven Official's Blessing) universe, adapted from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel.

Ferrero's turnover rose 8.9% to EUR 18.4 billion in the year to 31 August 2024, the year Nutella Ice Cream launched; capital investment grew 18% to EUR 958 million.

A Russian drone struck Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement shelter, tearing a hole in the roof and starting a fire that burned for weeks.

A second season of CloverWorks' Bocchi the Rock!, adapting Aki Hamaji's four-panel manga about a painfully shy guitarist, is announced at a Kessoku Band live event.

J.C.Staff's A Certain Scientific Railgun is getting a fourth season, with director Tatsuyuki Nagai and the main voice cast returning to Mikoto Misaka's Academy City five years after Railgun T.

At Mar-a-Lago, President Trump signs Executive Order 14216, directing his Domestic Policy Council to propose within 90 days ways to protect IVF access and sharply cut its out-of-pocket and health plan costs.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy withdrew the Federal Highway Administration's approval of Manhattan's $9 congestion toll in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul; the MTA sued in federal court the same afternoon.

Hershey sold $2 billion of bonds in four $500 million tranches due 2028 to 2035 at coupons of 4.55% to 5.10%, to repay $600 million of notes maturing in 2025 and some commercial paper.

Core net profit fell 26% to US$1.16 billion, with weaker sugar merchandising and no repeat of the 2023 Cosumar sale gain; the total dividend was cut to S$0.16.

Mayor Karen Bass removed Kristin Crowley as Los Angeles fire chief, saying 1,000 firefighters were sent home the morning the fires broke out and that Crowley refused to write an after-action report.

Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the first hybrid reasoning model, which answers instantly or thinks step by step for as long as the user allows, and launches the Claude Code terminal agent beside it.

DAMAC International broke ground on The Delmore, a Zaha Hadid Architects-designed condo tower replacing the collapsed Champlain Towers South, with far fewer, far pricier units than before.

OpenAI releases a research preview of GPT-4.5, its largest and best model for chat, scaling up unsupervised learning rather than reasoning.

PLDT's 2024 telco core income rose 2% to ₱35.1 billion, in line with guidance, and reported net income jumped 21% to ₱32.3 billion; the board declared a ₱47 final dividend for ₱97 a share in all, a 60% payout.

Hong Kong opened Kai Tak Sports Park, a 50,000-seat stadium and leisure complex built on the runway of the old Kai Tak Airport, closed since 1998.

San Diego FC drew 0-0 with St. Louis CITY SC in its first-ever home match, watched by 34,506 fans, the largest crowd for a sporting event in Snapdragon Stadium's history.

Ontario's liquor board removed more than 3,600 US-made products from 35 states, nearly $1 billion a year in sales, as retaliation for Trump's tariffs on Canada, and most other provinces followed.

Adani Wilmar signs a definitive agreement for G.D. Foods, maker of Tops ketchup, sauces and pickles, taking 80% first at an enterprise value of Rs 603 crore and the rest over three years.

On March 5, 2025, a New York Air National Guard LC-130H Skibird touched down on freshwater ice at Parsons Lake, Canada, a first for the unit’s ski-equipped Hercules fleet.

Los Angeles County sued SCE and Edison International alleging their equipment started the Eaton Fire, seeking at least hundreds of millions of dollars for destroyed parks, roads, cleanup and lost taxes.

Eric Pham opens his first sit-down restaurant in St. Anthony Park, a tribute to his mother Khue Pham of Minneapolis's Quang, with most mains at $21 or less.

Sarah Burton presented her debut Givenchy collection at the house's historic Avenue George V salon in Paris, a Fall/Winter 2025 womenswear show built around rediscovered pattern pieces from founder Hubert de Givenchy's own archive.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on 7 March 2025 that employers added 151,000 jobs in February, with unemployment at 4.1% and federal government employment down 10,000.

Boohoo Group said it would go forward as Debenhams Group with immediate effect, pivoting to a marketplace model after concluding that its revived Debenhams brand, bought out of administration in 2021, had become the majority contributor to the group's profitability.

Kering and Gucci announce that Demna, Balenciaga's artistic director since 2015, will become Gucci's new Artistic Director starting early July 2025, succeeding Sabato De Sarno, whose collaboration with the house ended in February.

Versace and Capri Holdings named Dario Vitale, previously design and image director at Miu Miu, as Chief Creative Officer, effective April 1, 2025, making him the first person outside the Versace family to lead the house; Donatella Versace moved into a new Chief Brand Ambassador role.

The second Mononoke film, Chapter II: The Ashes of Rage, opens in Japanese theaters, continuing the Medicine Seller's story as he is drawn into a spirit-haunted Edo-era harem consumed by rivalry and hidden rage.

Studio Drive releases the KONOSUBA 3 -Bonus Stage- OVA, two extra episodes bundled with the third season sending Kazuma's party on an explosion-fueled fight against an oncoming typhoon and a comic case of mistaken identity.

The maker of Fortune cooking oil drops the Adani name and becomes AWL Agri Business Limited under a fresh certificate of incorporation, as agreed in the Adani exit deal.

Tesla recalled every Cybertruck built from November 2023 to February 2025, 46,096 trucks, because the stainless steel cant rail panel above the doors can come unglued and fly off while driving.

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent on 19 March 2025 and cut the Treasury redemption cap to $5 billion a month from April, with Christopher Waller dissenting.

A Central Jakarta anti-corruption court panel led by Judge Djuyamto found Wilmar Group, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau had done what prosecutors charged but ruled it was not a crime, rejecting a Rp 11.88 trillion restitution demand against Wilmar.

A 5-1 vote closed Excel High School, Community Academy, Mary Lyon Pilot High School and the Dever Elementary at the end of 2025-26, moving about 1,300 students.

A hacker called rose87168 put 6 million records up for sale that they said came from Oracle Cloud's single sign-on login servers; Oracle denied any breach of Oracle Cloud.

SWAPO's Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah took the oath at State House in Windhoek on 21 March 2025, Namibia's 35th Independence Day, becoming the country's first woman president after winning 58% of the vote.

The Air Force awarded Boeing the Next Generation Air Dominance contract to design, build and deliver the F-47, the first US sixth-generation fighter and the F-22's successor, beating Lockheed Martin; Trump announced it in the Oval Office.

PLDT inaugurated its Digos, Davao del Sur landing station for the 12,000-kilometre Apricot cable, one of two Philippine landings that give PLDT routes facing the Pacific rather than the West Philippine Sea.

Loewe named Proenza Schouler founders Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez as its new co-creative directors, effective April 7, 2025, succeeding Jonathan Anderson, who had led the Spanish house for eleven years before departing the week before.

Google releases an experimental Gemini 2.5 Pro, its first 2.5 model and a thinking model that scores 18.8% on Humanity's Last Exam and 63.8% on SWE-Bench Verified with a 1 million token context window.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o to feel more intuitive and collaborative, with cleaner frontend code, better instruction following and clearer communication.

The Nevada Gaming Commission voted 4-0 to adopt a $10.5 million settlement with Resorts World Las Vegas over anti-money-laundering failures tied to illegal bookmaker Mathew Bowyer, the second-largest fine in the state's gaming history.

Production I.G's Kaiju No. 8 compilation film opens in Japan, recutting the first season around a new sequence in which intelligent kaiju attack a Defense Force base.

China Tourism Group Duty Free (CDFG), the Hainan-based operator behind most of the country's duty-free shopping, reported 2024 revenue of CNY56.47 billion, down 16.4%, as weak domestic demand and falling Hainan sales hit results.

Felipe Oliveira and Hiro Tagai, of ramen bar Koyoté, open an itameshi restaurant - Japanese-Italian cooking - in Salt Lake City.