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This undated handout photograph received from Philippines' Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) on March 14, 2024 shows a police officer (front, center) talking to foreign nationals after a raid in a 10-hectare (25-acre) complex of buildings in Bamban town of Tarlac province, north of Manila. Hundreds of people forced to work in an online scam centre in the Philippines were rescued in a pre-dawn raid on March 14 that also saw eight suspects arrested, according to police. Police found 432 Chinese nationals, 371 Filipinos, 57 Vietnamese, eight Malaysians, three Taiwanese, two Indonesians and two Rwandans at the site.

Syndicates pretending as POGOs pose national security threat — Teodoro

Criminal syndicates posing as Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators must be stopped as they pose national security concerns, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said on Wednesday.

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Gretchen Barretto bought a necklace with the price of a condo — RS Francisco

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Businessman RS Francisco revealed that actress Gretchen Barretto once bought a pearl necklace worth $1.5 million.

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Anti-narcotics agents confiscated 47 kilos of ketamine valued at P235 million from two Pakistanis in a drug sting in Malate, Manila on Thursday night.

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On May 31, the FDA issued an advisory to warn the public that counterfeit versions of six popular and highly trusted over-the-counter medicines of Unilab are proliferating in the market.

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Pharmaceutical and healthcare company Unilab Inc. lauded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for taking proactive measures to protect the public from the perils of purchasing fake medicines.

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Sen. Ronald 'Bato' dela Rosa in the Senate on this photo uploaded on his official Facebook fanpage.

‘Duterte, Bato free to attend House EJK probe’

The committee on human rights of the House of Representatives is not keen on sending an invitation, much less issuing a subpoena, to former president Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, but they are free to attend its inquiry on extrajudicial killings during the previous administration’s war against illegal drugs.

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Officials of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) led the ceremonial destruction of the illegal drugs through thermal decomposition at the Integrated Waste Management Inc. in Barangay Aguado in Trece Martires City, Cavite.

P9.1 billion seized illegal drugs destroyed

Illegal drugs valued at P9.1 billion that were seized in various operations this year were destroyed yesterday.

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