Here鈥檚 a quick roundup of today鈥檚 top stories:
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 brought up the matter during the Senate panel on women鈥檚 15th hearing on Guo鈥檚 ties to Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos).
Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor聽 Alice Guo and her cohorts fled the country to Malaysia by air, at least based on the preliminary conclusion of the Bureau of Immigration (BI).
BI Officer in Charge Atty, Joel Anthony Viado bared his agency鈥檚 conclusion at the Senate panel on women鈥檚 15th hearing on Guo鈥檚 Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) ties.
Recently resigned Civil Service Commission (CSC) chair聽聽has sought this city鈥檚 top post in the 2025 midterm elections.
Nograles filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) for mayor on Tuesday morning, a day after it was made public that he had resigned from his CSC post.
China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels used its water cannons again to disrupt the resupply mission to 聽Filipino ships in Scarborough Shoal on Tuesday morning, but China鈥檚 attempt failed to reach the boats, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) confirmed.
BRP Datu Cabaylo (MMOV 3301) and BRP Datu Sanday (MMOV 2002) were on a routine resupply mission to the Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough) Shoal when three CCG ships and one Chinese Navy vessel began to approach and shadow them, the bureau said in a statement.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called the execution of an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia 鈥渁 terrible tragedy,鈥� and said that the Philippine government exhausted all efforts to prevent it from happening.
鈥淚t was a terrible tragedy, and there was very little we had left to do. We have very few options left,鈥� he said in an ambush interview before he flew to Vientiane, Laos, on Tuesday for the 44th and 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit and related summits.
The Philippines鈥� unemployment rate fell to a two-month low of four percent in August largely due to a significant influx of Filipino women into the labor force who found jobs in the services sector, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported Tuesday.
Preliminary results of the PSA鈥檚 August round of the Labor Force Survey (LFS) showed the unemployment rate recorded the lowest in two months or since the 3.1 percent recorded in June, translating to 2.07 million jobless Filipinos.