Electronic casinos continue to hit the jackpot, growing exponentially and, as predicted, have shaken tycoons operating traditional casino floors. What’s happening now is similar to the e-sabong craze ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its peak in Nov. 2021-Apr. 2022 e-sabong grossed P3 billion a day. It was second only to shabu among lucrative vices. The difference was that e-sabong was legal while shabu wasn’t. But e-sabong, ...

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 ...

CALAMBA CITY, Laguna (PIA) – Members of the Calamba City Peace and Order Council (CPOC) and Calamba City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC) have thrown their support to the prohibition of all e-sabong ...

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said it has already shut down more than 53,000 websites linked to illegal online cockfighting or e-sabong, underscoring government ...

MANILA, Philippines – Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on Monday said there may be a connection between perpetrators of the drug war and e-sabong killings. “There was an intersection of these ...

AGAP Party-list Rep. Nicanor Briones. Photo: House of Representatives AGAP Party-list Rep. Nicanor Briones on Tuesday confirmed that he is the lawmaker caught on camera watching an online cockfighting ...

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 ...

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 ...