MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) raided last week a cockpit arena in Quezon City and arrested 10 employees for allegedly operating online sabong. Agents of the NBI ...

Senators on Thursday called on regulators to stop all existing online “sabong” (cockfight) operations in the country amid the unresolved cases of alleged abduction of 31 persons working in the ...

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 ...

Strangers and friends alike are now hooked on e-sabong, the online version of that age-old national obsession bequeathed to us by the Spaniards. Men, young and old; happy or depressed; rich or poor ...

MANILA, Philippines — The new president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has denounced the proliferation of online cockfighting or “e-sabong,”(online cockfighting) saying ...

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 ...

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) inspected several online cockfighting or e-sabong venues as part of their investigation into the several dozen missing cockfighting enthusiasts. According to ...

Without a congressional franchise, all online “e-sabong” betting is deemed illegal, administration PDP Laban Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III warned on Tuesday. The lawmaker asserted that operating ...

The Philippine National Police-Anti-Cybercrime Group said on Saturday that one reason e-sabong is still thriving is because operators continue to launch new websites even after the government shuts ...

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