Canton voters also elected a new mayor on Tuesday. Democrat Tim Taylor is the apparent winner over Republican Chip Matthews and independent candidate Walter Peeples. Incumbent Mayor William Truly did ...

Other vendors said the same. “Mayor Guo was a good mayor, you cannot fault anything about her leadership, I’m looking for someone like her,” Marissa Gomez said in Filipino.

The mayor everyone seemed to love Guo says she came to local politics from the pig-farming business, having managed her family's commercial piggery for several years.

In early 2022, residents of the rural Philippine town of Bamban, north of Manila, gathered for the mayoral campaign rally of a plucky young woman named Alice Leal Guo. Supporters dressed in pink – ...

In June 2022, just as Guo was being sworn in as mayor, Rodrigo Duterte's presidential term had ended. His successor, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, soon began facing calls for a ban on Pogo businesses.

How a Young Mayor Turned Her Town Into a Hub for ‘Pig Butchering’ Scammers WSJ got rare access to a criminal enclave in the Philippines from which Chinese gangs targeted people around the ...

Guo won as mayor of Bamban in May 2022, but she was dismissed by the Office of the Ombudsman. Hontiveros’ committee yesterday aired Wang’s recorded interview via Zoom during the 15th hearing.

MANILA, Philippines — Alice Guo on Tuesday said she would not seek reelection as Bamban mayor in 2025 to clean her name amid the cases filed against her. Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada ...

Guo made the confirmation during the hearing of the House quad-committee, when Batangas Rep. Gerville Luistro flashed a photo of a printed material written in Chinese, which indicated a photo of the ...

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 on Monday.