Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte backs the country’s gambling operators following a meeting with Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Philippines.- The Philippines will not face any more interference from China regarding its offshore gaming industry. The news comes after China called for all Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) to be shut down last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, both countries achieved an understanding after a meeting with Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines, Huang Xilian.
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Duterte said the Ambassador \u201cunderstands\u201d how the local law enforcement system works. They also talked about the need to potentially deport Chinese nationals working illegally for POGOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Ambassador said that if you must do it, because the law is the law \u2026 that if there is a need to deport, arrest, then they\u2019re keeping their hands away from all these things,\u201d Duterte said in an interview with ABS-CBN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn fairness to the Chinese government, they understand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ambassador also warned against targeting too many Chinese workers for jobs at POGOs, noting that some had been \u201clured into and cheated to work illegally with only tourist visas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you add more to this number presently operating, you will not be able to police them all”, said Huang, according to Duterte. \u201cSo you have to set a number for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has affirmed support for the country's Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) following discussions with Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian, indicating a resolution to prior Chinese calls for POGO shutdowns. An understanding was reached regarding the enforcement of local laws, including the potential deportation of Chinese nationals working illegally for POGOs, with China agreeing not to interfere. The Ambassador also cautioned against an excessive number of Chinese workers in the sector, citing concerns about illegal recruitment and the Philippines' capacity for oversight.","focusai_entities":"Rodrigo Duterte, Huang Xilian, Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators, Chinese government","focusai_location":"Philippines, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO Governance Frameworks?","query":"What specific governance frameworks will the Philippines implement to address China's concerns regarding illegal recruitment and the oversight of Chinese nationals employed by POGOs?"},{"label":"POGO Licensing Impact?","query":"How will this diplomatic understanding impact the B2B licensing and operational stability for existing POGOs, and what are the implications for new market entrants?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338],"tags":[29,227,512,128,1205],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-china","tag-gaming","tag-philippines","tag-pogo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}