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, 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.

Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman dismissed the revenue contribution to government of online cockfighting (e-sabong) as miniscule, dousing calls for its revival after the recent ban on Philippine ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) Chairman and CEO Alejandro Tengco said on Tuesday that online sabong operations continue despite the ban put in place by the previous ...

MANILA, Philippines — Despite Malacañang’s directive to stop e-sabong nationwide, suspended Negros 3rd District Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. allegedly continues to operate online gambling activities, as ...