Korean casino spree organizer gambles firm’s money away
By Jaymee T. Gamil
The temptation to gamble must have been too hard to resist for a Korean casino junket employee who ended up losing more than P13 million of his company’s money.
The temptation to gamble must have been too hard to resist for a Korean casino junket employee who ended up losing more than P13 million of his company’s money.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has ordered an “intensified” hunt for the other family members of Ponzi scam suspect Jachob “Coco” Rasuman after learning that they were in Metro Manila.
It’s a gimmick, but it works. This was how the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Philippines defended the country’s participation in Earth Hour which it has consistently topped since 2009.
The Southern Police District (SPD) has identified a suspect in the brazen robbery and killing of French tourist Pierre Paul Franz Hofman in Pasay City earlier this month.
Police have augmented security around two areas in southern Metro Manila, in light of the ongoing standoff and ensuing skirmishes in Sabah between the Malaysian security forces and followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III.
The Makati City police stood firm in its implementation of the nationwide gun ban, charging a bodyguard of an ambassador to Manila with violation of the election prohibition.
Careful with cheaper international calls to the Philippines. It may be the work of a “transnational” criminal syndicate.
Spanish and Filipino delegates to this year’s Tribuna España-Filipinas forum have agreed to embark on a coordinated “archiving program” of historical documents, especially those involving the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines more than 400 years ago.
Despite being in a recession, Spain will continue to turn a “fraternal eye” on its former colony, the Philippines.
Detained former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chief Benjamin Abalos is free to go to Taiwan to purchase milkfish fingerlings for his aquaculture business, a Pasay court ruled.
The Makati City police have arrested four men who allegedly stabbed a foreigner dead in a predawn altercation at the gate of a subdivision on Kalayaan Avenue early Saturday.
The Pasay City Regional Trial Court hearing an electoral sabotage case against former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. has denied his request to travel to Taiwan for four days this month.
