{"id":66008,"date":"2024-08-04T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/inside-mystery-alice-guo-missing-philippines-mayor"},"modified":"2024-08-04T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T04:00:20","slug":"cognac-tortoises-and-a-pink-striped-helicopter-inside-the-mystery-of-alice-guo-the-missing-philippines-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66008","title":{"rendered":"Cognac, tortoises and a pink-striped helicopter: inside the mystery of Alice Guo, the missing Philippines mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation is ongoing into the identity of Alice Guo and her links to a compound housing human trafficking victims and offshore gaming operations<\/p>\n<p>Alice Guo was a mayor like no other, say her supporters. At Christmas, she would hand out gifts of ham and spaghetti to local people. When school term started, she would give notebooks and bags to children. She wasn\u2019t from a prominent political family, as is often the case in the Philippines, yet she rose to become the first female leader of the town of Bamban in Tarlac province.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, Guo seemed fun and friendly. In a \u201cday in the life\u201d YouTube video, she showed off her white fluffy pomeranian, revealed her preferred shampoo brand and cheerfully told viewers that her favourite colour is pink \u2013 her campaign colour.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/inside-mystery-alice-guo-missing-philippines-mayor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation is ongoing into the identity of Alice Guo and her links to a compound housing human trafficking victims and offshore gaming operationsAlice Guo was a mayor like no other, say her supporters. At Christmas, she would hand out gifts of ham a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3872,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,725,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-trafficking","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66009,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66008\/revisions\/66009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}