MANILA, Philippines — Illegal online cockfighting or e-sabong continues to flourish on unregulated gambling platforms despite a nationwide ban, according to a new study by sociocultural research firm ...

Like a flash in the pan, “e-sabong” blazed hot and bright for a couple of years in the local gambling scene before former president Rodrigo Duterte ordered it stopped just before the end of his term ...

In clandestine dirt rings all over the country, or private, secret patches of earth, game fowls are still fighting – day and night, 24/7 – and these fights are streamed to thousands of online gamblers ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) believes that it can implement better e-sabong or online sabong operations, an initiative that generated over P6 billion in revenues a year ...