MANILA, Philippines — The continued operations of e-sabong or the online betting on live cockfights is now prohibited, with violators facing arrest and legal charges, the Department of the Interior ...

MANILA, Philippines — At least six websites used for betting on online cockfighting games are still operating despite the ban on “e-sabong” imposed by President Rodrigo Duterte earlier this month, the ...

Ted ALJIBE/AFP/AFP 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 ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to ban online cockfighting following outcry over the industry sparked by the disappearance of dozens of workers and concerns about the social costs of ...

SENATE probers tasked to investigate online cockfight betting are poised to render a report into the missing 34 cockfight aficionados as well as problems besetting the controversial business as soon ...

MANILA, Philippines — After defending e-sabong as an activity which generates millions of revenues for the government every month, President Rodrigo Duterte said that he is putting an end to it, ...

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—As sabong (cockfight) went online in 2018, the House of Representatives already expressed its concerns, but as COVID-19 lockdowns were implemented in 2020, the craze even went ...

DESPITE a government ban, illegal online cockfighting, or “e-sabong,” continues to operate in parts of the country, senators revealed during a joint hearing of the Senate Committee on Games and ...