Right here’s a fast roundup of as we speak’s high tales:
Alice Guo on Tuesday mentioned she wouldn’t search reelection as Bamban mayor in 2025 to scrub her identify amid the instances filed towards her.
Senate President Professional Tempore Jinggoy Estrada introduced up the matter through the Senate panel on girls’s fifteenth listening to on Guo’s ties to Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos).
Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo and her cohorts fled the nation to Malaysia by air, at the very least primarily based on the preliminary conclusion of the Bureau of Immigration (BI).
BI Officer in Cost Atty, Joel Anthony Viado bared his company’s conclusion on the Senate panel on girls’s fifteenth listening to on Guo’s Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) ties.
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Not too long ago resigned Civil Service Fee (CSC) chair Karlo Alexie Nograles has sought this metropolis’s high put up within the 2025 midterm elections.
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Nograles filed his certificates of candidacy (COC) for mayor on Tuesday morning, a day after it was made public that he had resigned from his CSC put up.
China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels used its water cannons once more to disrupt the resupply mission to Filipino ships in Scarborough Shoal on Tuesday morning, however China’s try failed to succeed in the boats, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Assets (BFAR) confirmed.
BRP Datu Cabaylo (MMOV 3301) and BRP Datu Sanday (MMOV 2002) had been on a routine resupply mission to the Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough) Shoal when three CCG ships and one Chinese language Navy vessel started to method and shadow them, the bureau mentioned in an announcement.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. referred to as the execution of an abroad Filipino employee in Saudi Arabia “a horrible tragedy,” and mentioned that the Philippine authorities exhausted all efforts to forestall it from occurring.
“It was a horrible tragedy, and there was little or no we had left to do. We now have only a few choices left,” he mentioned in an ambush interview earlier than he flew to Vientiane, Laos, on Tuesday for the forty fourth and forty fifth Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations Summit and associated summits.
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The Philippines’ unemployment charge fell to a two-month low of 4 p.c in August largely on account of a big inflow of Filipino girls into the labor drive who discovered jobs within the companies sector, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported Tuesday.
Preliminary outcomes of the PSA’s August spherical of the Labor Drive Survey (LFS) confirmed the unemployment charge recorded the bottom in two months or because the 3.1 p.c recorded in June, translating to 2.07 million jobless Filipinos.
