Alice Guo, a Chinese national posing as a Filipina, ran a sprawling online gambling and trafficking operation in Bamban ...

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For months, millions of people were glued to their TV screens as a slight, bespectacled young woman was grilled by lawmakers in the Philippines for hours at a time about her origin story What is her ...

Nov. 20 (UPI) --A Philippine judge on Thursday sentenced a former mayor convicted of human trafficking in connection with an illegal offshore gambling operation in her town, according to local reports ...

MANILA, Philippines — Calling her “nothing more but a usurper” of public office, the Manila Regional Trial Court ousted Alice Leal Guo from her position as Bamban, Tarlac Mayor, and disqualified her ...

Alice Leal Guo made history in 2022 when she became the first female mayor of Bamban, a rural town in the Tarlac province north of Manila. For the first two years of her mayoralty, Guo — who pledged ...

A court in the Philippines convicted Alice Guo for trafficking people to a compound that officials have linked to online scams and organized crime. By Francesca Regalado The former mayor of a small ...

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