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Bamban Mayor Alice Guo attends a Senate hearing on alleged human trafficking and POGO operations on May 22.

Alice Guo may have lied about Filipino mother — senators

Two senators said it is possible that Alice Guo's parents were both Chinese after all based on the investigation of one senator's team who found that Valenzuela City residents allegedly knew Guo's mother to be a certain Chinese national named "Lin Wen Yi."

The Philippine Coast Guard and community members respond to an "oil leakage" in New Washington, Aklan.

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Barge leaks oil, halts fishing in Aklan town

French gendarmes stand guard near independantists at the entrance of the Riviere Salee disctrict, in Noumea, France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia, on May 29, 2024. Riots sparked by a constitutional reform project broke out on May 13. France has lifted a state of emergency across the territory after two weeks of unrest in which seven people died and hundreds were injured

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Quiboloy to ask SC to reconsider transfer of Davao case

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Sara Duterte asks SC to dismiss pleadings vs confidential funds

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Ray Parks enters renegotiations with Japan B.League’s Nagoya

Ray Parks enters renegotiations with Japan B.League’s Nagoya

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Another Filipino player has entered the Japan B.League free agency after Bobby Ray Parks’ contract has lapsed.

Bolts force Game 7 vs Gin Kings

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