President Rodrigo Duterte has changed his mind and ordered the rapid suspension of e-sabong operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.- After receiving criticism from different sectors for prioritising the economy over people, President Rodrigo Duterte has finally bowed to pressure and ordered an immediate suspension of online cockfighting operations<\/strong>. According to local media reports, Duterte now says e-sabong, is \u201cworking against our values\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In March,\u00a023 senators<\/strong>\u00a0signed\u00a0Resolution No. 996\u00a0<\/strong>calling for a suspension of e-sabong after\u00a031 people linked to the industry disappeared<\/a>.\u00a0Until now, Duterte has defended e-sabong<\/a>\u00a0arguing that it was necessary for the economy because of a lack of funds as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He had stated: \u201cAt the end of the year, if I have the billions at PHP640m a month, then I can use it to help because the pandemic has depleted my contingency plan and the intelligence fund which I gave to the police and military.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n PAGCOR chairman Andrea Domingo <\/strong>had previously said the regulator could raise about Php7.2bn to Php8bn if e-sabong continues to operate until the end of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A bill to tax online betting on sabong events<\/a>\u00a0held in legal cockpits was approved in November 2020, and in May 2021,\u00a0PAGCOR issued the first licences<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Rodrigo Duterte has changed his mind and ordered the rapid suspension of e-sabong operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the immediate suspension of e-sabong operations in the Philippines, reversing his previous stance. This decision follows public criticism and the disappearance of 31 individuals linked to the industry, despite the significant tax revenues e-sabong generated for PAGCOR.","focusai_entities":"Rodrigo Duterte, PAGCOR, Andrea Domingo","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"PAGCOR Revenue Impact?","query":"What is the projected financial impact of the e-sabong suspension on PAGCOR's annual revenue targets and the broader national budget?"},{"label":"Future Regulatory Precedent?","query":"How might this abrupt regulatory reversal for e-sabong influence the governance frameworks and licensing stability for other online gaming verticals in the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,158,16333],"tags":[24019,23911],"class_list":["post-29505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-e-sabong","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29530,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505\/revisions\/29530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}