Former Bamban mayor Alice Guo is facing life in prison for qualified human trafficking, carried out in a Philippine offshore gaming operator hub set up in her private property. Thanks to the scandal ...

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 ...

MANILA – The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) said it is ready to take custody of dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo and other individuals whom the courts have ordered committed, affirming ...

A Philippine court yesterday sentenced Alice Guo, a Chinese national who became a mayor while masquerading as a Filipina, and seven others to life in prison on human trafficking charges, state ...

A Philippine court on Thursday convicted a former mayor, who officials say is a Chinese national, of human trafficking charges for helping establish an illegal online gaming complex in a northern ...

Former Bamban mayor Alice Guo attends a hearing of an investigation into illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators at the Senate in Pasay City, Philippines, Sept. 9, 2024. Credit: PNA photo by ...

Alice Guo Huaping, the onetime small-town mayor whose mid-2024 arrest heralded growing attention to what would become one of the world’s biggest crime stories, has been sentenced to life in prison by ...

MANILA – A Pasig court has found former Bamban Mayor Alice Guo guilty of qualified trafficking over the alleged criminal activities discovered in an illegal Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) ...

Detained former Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo (Courtesy: Senate of the Philippines) Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo – a Chinese woman who faked Philippine nationality – was found guilty of ...

MANILA – Senators Risa Hontiveros and Sherwin Gatchalian on Thursday welcomed the conviction of Alice Guo, saying the ruling is a landmark victory in the country’s fight against human trafficking, ...

Alice Guo, also known as Chinese national Guo Hua Ping, a fugitive former mayor of Bamban, Tarlac province attends a Senate hearing in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, September 9, 2024.