The agency tasked to regulate POGOs, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp., had opposed the ban, saying all that was needed to prevent their criminal activities was better regulation. Having ...

MANILA, Philippines — Despite the nationwide ban on online cockfight betting or e-sabong since December 2022, such activities continue to proliferate on unregulated platforms, a new study said.

MANILA, Philippines—In 2022, a young mother sold her own infant to pay off her online sabong debt—an unthinkable crime for which she was convicted in 2024. The baby—then just eight months old—became a ...

MANILA, Philippines — Over 2,400 websites accessible for electronic-sabong or online cockfighting purposes have been blocked under an executive order issued last year to ensure its suspension, PNP ...

Divers have spent more than a month searching a lake south of Manila for the bodies of men with links to the Philippines’ bloody national obsession: cockfighting. They were murdered by rogue police, a ...

“THE Case of e-Sabong and the Missing ‘Sabungeros’” sounds like the title of a crime-mystery-thriller novel. It may well become one if some enterprising producers turn this whole affair into a movie.

It seems some lawmakers are not above gambling away the nation’s future in their all-consuming appetite for profit. Or at least that’s what it sounded like when we heard the outrageous proposal from ...

The Philippine National Police-Anti-Cybercrime Group said on Saturday that one reason e-sabong is still thriving is because operators continue to launch new websites even after the government shuts ...