AT least four people were arrested in a raid of an online sabong (cockfight) site in Misamis Occidental on Friday, resulting ...

It is one thing for government and elected officials to say the right thing versus actually doing the right thing. As I read and listened to the statements of Senator Bato dela Rosa regarding the ...

DILG asked Meta, Facebook's parent company, to take down e-sabong sites after former President Rodrigo Duterte banned online cockfighting operations. (File image from Jerome Cristobal / ...

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 172 individuals were arrested when elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (CIDG) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) raided an illegal online ...

GLOBE Fintech Innovations Inc. (GFII) admitted in a statement it has no power to “completely prevent individuals with criminal intent” in engaging minors to participate in e-sabong. A lawmaker, ...

Going strong: An employee of a cockfighting arena holding a wager machine during a cockfight in Bulacan province, north of Manila. Cockfighting has long been a national obsession in the Philippines, ...

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 ...

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 ...