The country may have dodged a bullet with Ms Guo’s underhanded enterprise getting exposed, and now with the relatively quick action by a court to banish her from civic life.

The former Bamban mayor is now in detention, facing Pogos-linked charges of human trafficking, money laundering and ...

A Manila court ruling on Alice Guo’s Chinese nationality “is a win for the national government,” the Bureau of Immigration said yesterday.

Nearly a year after she was dismissed from office for her involvement in illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) ...