PROPOSALS to revive online cockfighting, or e-sabong, as a way to make up for the foregone revenues due to the recent ban on Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) represent a resort to a “worse ...

MANILA: 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 casualty ...

AGAP Party-list Rep. Nicanor Briones says he's willing to face an ethics complaint over the "sabong scandal" he's involved in, as he is eager to clear his name and that of the House of Representatives ...

A PEDICAB driver drives past a shuttered Pitmasters Live outlet in Pasay City, businessman Atong Ang’s e-sabong franchise. (NONIE REYES) PHILIPPINE Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) asserted ...

THE DEPARTMENT of Budget and Management (DBM) on Wednesday rejected a proposal to revive online cockfighting operations or e-sabong, saying the government has enough revenue to fund next year’s ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The chairman of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) and nine others have been charged with graft before the Office of the Ombudsman over the allegedly illegal ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) has begun a campaign to eliminate illegal online cockfighting or online sabong, calling it a growing threat that ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center has intensified its campaign against online sabong as part of a broader crackdown on cybercrime platforms. In declaring an ...

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 ...