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The quiet rise of online gambling
In the heyday of Offshore Gaming Operators (Pogos), long before former Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo became the poster face ...
A Manila court has ruled that former Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo is a Chinese citizen, thereby disqualifying her from ...
The former Bamban mayor is now in detention, facing Pogos-linked charges of human trafficking, money laundering and ...
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Manila court: Alice Guo ‘a Chinese national’
Nearly a year after she was dismissed from office for her involvement in illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) ...
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has urged suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo to divulge details about the masterminds of Philippine offshore gaming operations (Pogos). He ...
Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo could be considered a state witness should investigations into the illegal activities of a Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) hub in her town lead ...
Alice Guo has been ordered suspended as mayor of Tarlac’s Bamban town by the Office of the Ombudsman. In an order dated May 31, 2024, signed by Ombudsman Samuel Martires, Guo was placed under ...
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An end to a usurper’s fairy tale
Even in the magic-realist world of Philippine politics, where extraordinary tales of intrigue, duplicity, and absurdity in ...
TARLAC, Philippines – Two years ago, 35-year-old Alice Leal Guo was celebrated for being the first female mayor of Bamban, a small, second-class municipality in the province of Tarlac, north of ...
FILE PHOTO: Bamban Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo appears before the Senate as Sen. Risa Hontiveros flagged Guo’s alleged ties to Chinese “criminals” during a Senate hearing on May 22, 2024.
Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, also known as Guo Hua Ping, returned to the Philippines on Friday morning, September 6, after being apprehended by authorities in Tangerang City, Indonesia.
Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo on Monday insisted during a Senate hearing that she was born in Tarlac and not in China. “Ang alam ko po I was born in Tarlac,” Guo said during the resumption ...