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 ...

BACOLOD CITY — The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (Provincial Board) of Negros Occidental on Tuesday passed an ordinance prohibiting online or remote betting for cockfights in the province. Provincial ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — More than 52,000 e-sabong sites, or online cockfighting betting, have been taken down from 2023 to 2025, according to the Department of Information and Communications Technology ...

“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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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 — Despite the nationwide ban on online cockfight betting or e-sabong since December 2022, such activities continue to proliferate on unregulated platforms, a new study said.