The mayor of a small Philippines town who has been accused of being a Chinese spy has rebutted the charges and clarified that she is a filipino. Alice Leal Guo, the mayor of Bamban town in Philippines, is being investigated for her alleged ties to China after she failed to give clear answers when asked about her family background during a senate hearing.
“I want to tell the public is that I am not a Chinese spy. I am a Filipino. I love my own country. I am not an asset,” said Alice Leal Guo in an interview to ABS-CBN news.
According to BBC, she has also said that she is a “love child” of her father who was Chinese and his Filipino maid and that her mother had abandoned her. “I am my father’s love child with a maid… It’s a very private matter. I can’t just tell anyone that my own mother had deserted me,” she said.
Ms Guo also said that during the hearing, her mind just “went blank”.
The clarification comes amid heat she has been facing for being an alleged “asset of China”.
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There were at least three Indian nationals among the 229 people aboard the Singapore Airlines flight that encountered a “sudden extreme turbulence” over the Irrawaddy Basin at 37,000 feet, the flag carrier of Singapore said on Tuesday.
The traumatic incident in which the aircraft descended 6,000 feet in about three minutes, left a 73-year-old British man dead and more than two dozen other passengers injured.
The British man, who was not yet identified, “likely” died from a heart attack, the General Manager of Suvarnabhumi Airport Kittipong Kittikachorn said.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight SQ321, operating from London (Heathrow) to Singapore on May 20 encountered “sudden extreme turbulence over the Irrawaddy Basin at 37,000 feet about 10 hours after departure,” the carrier said.
The pilot declared a medical emergency and diverted the aircraft to Bangkok, and landed on May 21. “We can confirm that there were multiple injuries and one fatality on board the Boeing 777-300ER aircraft,” the..

The lawyer of the teen involved in Pune’s horrific drink driving case, today scoffed at the arrest of the boy’s father. In an exclusive interview to NDTV, Prashant Patil said the most crucial bit in the matter will be evidence — whether police have proof that he had knowledge of his son’s activities.
The sections the police have charged him under, are anyway inapplicable, he added.
In one of the most horrific cases of drink driving in recent days, the teen was doing 250 kmph when he hit the bike carrying the two engineers from Madhya Pradesh, Both of them died on the spot.
A few months short of 18, the legal age for driving, he got bail within 15 hours. He has been asked to work with the traffic police of Yerawada for 15 days, and would undergo counselling. He has also been referred to an alcohol de-addiction centre.
The decision of the Juvenile Justice Board for quick bail, with its set of easy conditions, has sparked massive anger. The police have said they are trying to put the min..

In an unprecedented development, CCTV footage has emerged showing an MLA from the ruling YSR Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh picking up a voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) machine and hurling it to the ground at a polling station. The Election Commission said the MLA vandalised electronic voting machines (EVMs) in seven polling centres and the state police chief has been asked to take strict action.
The police said the MLA has been named as an accused while the opposition Telugu Desam Party has claimed that the legislator and the YSRCP are indulging in such vandalism because they are fearing defeat.
The incident took place on May 13, when all 25 of Andhra Pradesh’s Lok Sabha constituencies and all 175 Assembly seats went to the polls. Violence was reported on the day of the election in many areas and sporadic incidents have taken place after that as well.
In the footage, YSRCP leader Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy, who is the sitting MLA from the Macherla constituency and has w..