Right here’s a fast roundup of right this moment’s high tales:
Alice Guo on Tuesday stated she wouldn’t search reelection as Bamban mayor in 2025 to scrub her identify amid the circumstances filed towards her.
Senate President Professional Tempore Jinggoy Estrada introduced up the matter through the Senate panel on ladies’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 least based mostly 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 ladies’s fifteenth listening to on Guo’s Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) ties.
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Just lately 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 Sources (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 strategy and shadow them, the bureau stated in an announcement.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. known as the execution of an abroad Filipino employee in Saudi Arabia “a horrible tragedy,” and stated that the Philippine authorities exhausted all efforts to stop it from taking place.
“It was a horrible tragedy, and there was little or no we had left to do. We have now only a few choices left,” he stated 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 fee fell to a two-month low of 4 p.c in August largely attributable to a major inflow of Filipino ladies into the labor pressure 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 Pressure Survey (LFS) confirmed the unemployment fee recorded the bottom in two months or for the reason that 3.1 p.c recorded in June, translating to 2.07 million jobless Filipinos.
