MANILA, Philippines — 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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center has intensified its campaign against online sabong as part of a broader crackdown on cybercrime platforms. In declaring an ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — Online cockfighting or “e-sabong” remains active on unregulated gambling platforms more than two years after a nationwide ban, underscoring persistent gaps in enforcement, ...

SEN. Erwin Tulfo on Sunday slammed the reported continued operations of online sabong (cockfighting), which was declared illegal by the government in 2022. Tulfo said he would summon the Philippine ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Senate games and amusements committee will include online cockfighting or e-sabong in its next hearing, following its continued operations in areas such as Batangas and ...

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 ...

They were murdered by rogue police, a government witness says, allegedly for rigging matches at the height of the country's pandemic-era craze for betting on live-streamed cockfights, or "e-sabong".

MANILA, Philippines — Around 52,847 online cockfight betting or “e-sabong” sites were taken down from 2023 until this year, according to the Department of Information and Communications Technology ...