OSG: Pogo asset seizuresgolden plus, birth records purge next
The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) will play a key role in dealing with the Philippine offshore gaming operators’ (Pogos) exit from the country.
Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday told reporters that the OSG’s post-Pogo responsibilities would involve initiating proceedings to cancel fraudulent birth certificates issued to foreign nationals and to seize any properties they have acquired illegally in the country.
Article continues after this advertisement OCD: 3 dead, 2 missing due to rains triggered by ITCZ, shear lineThree persons died while two others reported missing following rains triggered by the shear line and the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) reported on Thursday.
FEATURED STORIES NEWSINFO OSG: Pogo asset seizures, birth records purge next NEWSINFO Ecozone eyed as naval base site in Mindanao NEWSINFO Girl dead, boyfriend hurt in Rizal hackingOCD Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno said the two weather systems affected the Davao and Caraga regions in Mindanao, Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) and Cagayan in late December 2024.
Terrorism suspected in New Orleans truck-ramming that killed 15A US citizen with an Islamic State flag and “hellbent” on carnage steered a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year revelers in New Orleans on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
The FBI identified the attacker as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US citizen from Texas and an Army veteran. He appeared to have been a real estate agent working in Houston and had served as an IT specialist in the military.
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PNP spokesperson Police Brigadier Jean Fajardo said the Chinese national was kidnapped while fishing in Angat River near Bustos Dam at around 1 a.m. on Sunday Oct. 21.
In a 66-page decision promulgated on Oct. 18, 2024, the Third Division of the anti-graft court found Ampatuan guilty of graft and malversation of public funds for allowing the cash advance of up to P393 million to implement 22 farm-to-market road projects that were found to be mostly unimplemented.