MANILA, Philippines — Calling her “nothing more but a usurper” of public office, the Manila Regional Trial Court ousted Alice Leal Guo from her position as Bamban, Tarlac Mayor, and disqualified her ...

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 ...

The Alice Guo saga has largely faded from the headlines, now that the former Bamban, Tarlac mayor who hid her Chinese identity and passed herself off as Filipino has been convicted and sent to jail.

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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 ...