MANILA, Philippines — Three bills seeking more stringent regulations for cockfighting operations — including a proposed measure that outright bans any activity related to online cockfighting or ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to ban online cockfighting following outcry over the industry sparked by the disappearance of dozens of workers and concerns about the social costs of ...

In clandestine dirt rings all over the country, or private, secret patches of earth, game fowls are still fighting – day and night, 24/7 – and these fights are streamed to thousands of online gamblers ...

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As several unregulated gambling platforms continue to host online cockfighting or e-sabong events, a new study looked into how regulated and unregulated platforms differ in key areas. Filipino-focused ...

The Philippines' gamefowl industry is estimated to be worth around $900m People watch as a referee officiates a cockfighting match at the San Pedro Coliseum in Laguna province on August 26, 2022. 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 by rogue police, a ...

Cockfighting is often seen as barbaric and banned around the world, but in the Philippines, questions about the blood sport are often framed as a debate over culture versus cruelty. The practice dates ...

Manila (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 by ...