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  • Philippine Senator Rizal Tivero says the National Bureau of Investigation has confirmed

  • Embattled Bantarlap Mayor Alice Goh is indeed Goh Huaping.

  • The senator says the NBI arrived to this conclusion after it compared the fingerprints of Mayor

  • Goh to those of the Chinese passport holder.

  • The Senate had uncovered documents from the Bureau of Immigration showing Goh Huaping entering the Philippines in 2003 when she was just 13 years old.

  • But the mayor had denied this.

  • Tiveros adds this confirms her suspicions Goh is a Chinese national masquerading as a Filipino citizen to facilitate crimes being committed by offshore gaming operators.

  • This revelation also contradicts Mayor Goh's earlier pronouncement that she is a love child of her father and his housekeeper, Amelia Leal.

  • Goh has been the subject of scrutiny after the Senate panel on women bared her alleged ties to Zunyuan technology.

  • A pogo hub in Bamban, Tarlac which authorities raided in March.

  • The Philippine Statistics Authority sounds the alarm over irregularities in Embattled

  • Mayor Alice Goh's birth certificate.

  • Eliezer Ambatali notes there are no supporting documents with the Tarlac local registrar confirming Goh's identity.

  • The PSA also has no record of Goh's parents being wed despite a marriage date indicated on her birth certificate.

  • The supposed date of marriage also differs across the certificates of Goh's siblings.

  • Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. admits the Philippines needs to do more in the face of China's growing aggression in disputed waters.

  • He notes the country has already filed over a hundred protests against Beijing.

  • The President also says while the latest incident in Aung San Suu Kyi cannot be considered an armed attack, it was still a deliberate and illegal action by the Chinese.

  • We have over a hundred already protests.

  • We have already made a similar number of demarches.

  • So we have to do more than just that.

  • That's it.

  • But we have to do more than that.

  • So we are.

  • So we're doing more than just that.

  • It's not armed.

  • But it was a deliberate, it was a deliberate action to stop our people.

  • But in the process of that, they boarded a Philippine vessel and took the equipment from the Philippine vessel.

  • So although there were no arms involved, nonetheless, it is still a deliberate action and it is essentially an illegal action that was taken by the Chinese forces.

  • The Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce calling for a dialogue between the Philippines and China to manage tensions in the West Philippine Sea.

  • Cecilio Pedro, the president of the business group, told Teleradio Servisio the thought of conflict or war does not bode well with investors.

  • He says the dialogue should focus on cooperation and achieving mutual respect.

  • The most important thing is peace.

  • What's important to us is continuous stability.

  • The direction that we are going into is bad.

  • What we want is mutual respect.

  • I hope that China, the Chinese Navy will also respect us and we will respect them.

  • America's defense chief reiterates Washington's support for Manila amid continued Chinese aggression.

  • U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke on the phone with his Philippine counterpart

  • Gilbert Teodoro Jr. Wednesday.

  • The Pentagon says Austin reaffirmed America's commitment to help defend Philippine sovereignty.

  • Also discussed were intel sharing efforts between the two nations and enhancing the

  • Philippine military's capability.

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Philippine Senator Rizal Tivero says the National Bureau of Investigation has confirmed

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