Former "Pinoy Big Brother" housemate Carolyn Batay attended the Senate inquiry into illegal offshore gaming hubs on Tuesday with a vital task: serving as the hearing's Chinese interpreter.

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Rowegie Abanto

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<div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/C7YPofrvEF-/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=675&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fnews-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A4145655%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="746" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><span>MANILA — Former &quot;Pinoy Big Brother&quot; housemate Carolyn Batay, also known as Carol Batay, attended the Senate inquiry into illegal offshore gaming hubs on Tuesday with a vital task: serving as the hearing&#x27;s Chinese interpreter.</span></div><div><span>Tuesday&#x27;s hearing was attended by businessman Michael Yang&#x27;s brother, </span> <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/24/tony-yang-admits-having-fraudulent-ph-birth-certificate-in-senate-pogo-probe-1107"></a><span><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/24/tony-yang-admits-having-fraudulent-ph-birth-certificate-in-senate-pogo-probe-1107">Tony Yang</a>, who claimed he needed an interpreter because he supposedly cannot speak Filipino, English, or Bisaya.</span></div><div><span>The former &quot;PBB&quot; housemate&#x27;s English translations of Tony&#x27;s Chinese statements helped the senators communicate with him, as the chamber enters the final stretch of its investigation.</span></div><div><span><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/24/tony-yang-admits-having-fraudulent-ph-birth-certificate-in-senate-pogo-probe-1107" id="isPasted">READ: Tony Yang admits having fraudulent PH birth certificate &#x27;obtained by grandpa&#x27;</a></span></div><div><span></span><span>Batay first attended the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality&#x27;s hearing into POGOs in May, during which she posted on Instagram expressing her disbelief at being invited as an interpreter.</span></div><div><span></span><span>&quot;From TV shows to international events to Senate hearings. Finally making it here. Thank you, Lord, you never fail to amaze me,&quot; she captioned her May 22 post.</span></div><div><span>At the time, Batay did a live interpretation of Fookien sentences spoken by dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, also known by her alleged Chinese name Guo Hua Ping. </span></div><p><span>The disgraced former mayor</span><span> is facing</span> graft, money laundering, and qualified human trafficking charges. She is also facing questions on her citizenship, with the National Bureau of Investigation saying she has the same fingerprints as a Chinese national. <span></span><br/></p><div><span></span><span>In 2009, Batay joined the reality TV show &quot;PBB&quot; during its &quot;Double Up&quot; edition, where Melai Cantiveros and Jason Francisco were among her housemates. </span></div><div><span>Batay was the 6th housemate to be evicted from the ABS-CBN show.</span></div><div><span>According to her </span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CarolBatay/videos"></a><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CarolBatay/videos">YouTube account</a></span><span>, Batay belongs to the third generation of Chinese people who migrated to the Philippines, where she was born and raised.</span></div><div><span></span><span>After her stint on the TV show, the Filipino-Chinese went on to become an events host, Chinese interpreter, and language instructor.</span></div><p><span></span>&quot;When things get stressful, I barely have time to teach students personally so I decided to come up with this channel to reach out to more students, not only in the Philippines, but hopefully all over the world,&quot; she wrote on her YouTube account.</p><div><span></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zvsW-pc1wF0?&amp;ab_channel=ABS-CBNNews&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></div><div><span></span><br/><span></span></div>

<p>Former "Pinoy Big Brother" housemate Carolyn Batay attended the Senate inquiry into illegal offshore gaming hubs on Tuesday with a vital task: serving as the hearing's Chinese interpreter.</p>

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Ex-'PBB' housemate Carol Batay serves as Chinese interpreter at Senate POGO hearings

Ex-'PBB' housemate Carol Batay serves as Chinese interpreter at Senate POGO hearings

Rowegie Abanto,

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Published Sep 24, 2024 02:56 PM PHT

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Updated Sep 24, 2024 03:55 PM PHT

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