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Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Friday raised the possibility of Chinese spies securing Philippine citizenship by obtaining genuine passports, tax identification cards, immigration documents, and even birth certificates through fraudulent means. Presiding over a hearing by the Senate…
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday said the 23,000 Filipinos who will be displaced should the government ban Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (Pogos) will be given employment. READ: 23,000 Filipinos to lose jobs once POGOs leave, group warns…
The rapid expansion of Philippine offshore gaming operators, better known as Pogos, under the Duterte administration, has brought into the country an unprecedented number of young Chinese workers from mainland China. No other nationality has maintained as…
MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Internal Revenues (BIR) has advised Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) to take seriously the government’s new rules on tax payments after the agency noted that only a negligible number of POGOs…
MANILA, Philippines — Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Saturday said he would move to resume the blue ribbon committee inquiry into the Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGO) as more questions were raised on the reopening of…
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine offshore gaming operations (Pogo) are considered business process outsourcing (BPOs) companies, Malacañang said Friday, as its partial reopening gets thegreen light from the government’s COVID-19 inter-agency task force. Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation…
CEBU CITY, Philippines—Police in Central Visayas arrested two Chinese nationals accused of kidnapping three fellow Chinese men in Lapu-Lapu City on Thursday dawn, March 5, 2020. The suspects were identified as A Gui and Xiao Fan, based…
MANILA, Philippines — A tearful tell-all from a Taiwanese national, who was forced to work in a Philippine online gaming operator (Pogo), bared the harrowing tale of threats and abuse from her Chinese employers. Lai Yu Cian,…
CEBU CITY, Philippines—The government’s infrastructure projects and decentralization thrust will benefit Cebu’s office property sector since Cebu is the largest business destination outside Metro Manila, according to Colliers International, a global leader in commercial real estate services. …
A few months back, a friend invited me to the launch of a residential and condominium hotel in Lapulapu City. It was not an ordinary event in the sense that the property developer was not some…
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