Ang Cebu City Anti-Mendicancy Board nipasalig nga hutdon nila paghipos ang mga libudsuroy sa dakbayan sa dili pa magsugod ang Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit karong Agosto 24.
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The Cebu City government will conduct a massive rescue operation of mendicants and night dwellers ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in Cebu.
Six months to Christmas, the city government has issued a total of 7,000 citation tickets to mendicants but Vice Mayor Edgar Labella admits enforcing the anti-mendicancy law does not come easy especially with the Filipino’s inherent trait of being giving.
Giangkon sa hepe sa Cebu City Anti Mendicancy Task Force (CCAMTF) nga si Isabelita Ganub nga may problema ang maong grupo sa pagsumpo sa mga malapason sa City Ordinance 1631 nga nagdili sa paghatag og kuwarta ngadto sa makililimos.
Here’s another proof that we’re not really a country of poor people. Millions of pesos representing winnings in the sweepstakes and lotto have not been claimed by the winners and have been forfeited.
Senators challenged the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) to name the former Cabinet official who allegedly facilitated the grant of gaming licenses to Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) so as not to cast doubt on all other former members of the Cabinet.
The bombshell revelation of Alejandro “Al” Tengco, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCor), may be likened to an improvised explosive device (IED) he triggered while he was still holding on to it. In a press statement he issued over the weekend, Tengco accused a certain former Cabinet official as allegedly “trying to intercede for POGOs,” or the Philippine Online Gaming Operators.
Senator Win Gatchalian accused the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) of “sleeping on the job” after thousands of SIM cards were found in raids of POGO hubs in Pasay, Bamban and Porac. The raiding teams from the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) tagged these supposedly POGO operations as hotbeds of illegal activities by foreign criminal syndicates victimizing people here and abroad. They give our country a bad international reputation.
A former high-ranking government official tried to secure gaming licenses for several illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators that have recently been raided, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. said.
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