{"id":7155,"date":"2020-06-09T22:20:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T22:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=7155"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:35:16","slug":"pagcor-pogo-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pagcor-pogo-elections","title":{"rendered":"PAGCOR promises to solve POGO issues before elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The agency will seek to avoid the problems being used as leverage during political campaigns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Philippines.- The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR)<\/em><\/strong> has said it expects regulation issues over Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) to be resolved before the 2022 elections to prevent them from being used an electoral weapon during campaigning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGCOR Chairman and CEO Andrea Domingo said that people working against the current administration might try to use POGO issues as leverage if the problems such as the concentration of foreign workers run on until the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGB reported Domingo saying: \u201cWe are encouraging POGO hubs where all of the workers can be situated in one holistic community where their safety and health will be looked after.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said the harmonisation of POGO-related laws and regulations was the main reason behind halting new accreditations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u201cWe are going to harmonise tax structures, harmonise labour and immigration and law enforcement agencies to ensure safe play, fairness and safety, and security for all workers in POGO working legally.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domingo said this week that PAGOR expected casinos in the Philippines to reopen<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by July at the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The agency will seek to avoid the problems being used as leverage during political campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"PAGCOR anticipates resolving regulatory issues concerning Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) prior to the 2022 elections to mitigate political weaponization. Chairman and CEO Andrea Domingo highlighted efforts to harmonize tax, labour, immigration, and law enforcement frameworks, alongside promoting POGO hubs for worker welfare, as key to addressing current challenges and enabling new accreditations.","focusai_entities":"Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), Andrea Domingo","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO Hubs Governance?","query":"What specific governance frameworks and operational protocols will be implemented within the proposed POGO hubs to ensure effective oversight of foreign worker concentration, mitigate social integration challenges, and prevent illicit activities?"},{"label":"Regulatory Harmonization Timeline?","query":"What is the precise legislative and executive action roadmap for the harmonisation of tax, labour, and immigration laws impacting POGOs, and what are the key performance indicators for achieving this prior to the 2022 elections?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,158,16333],"tags":[405,15789],"class_list":["post-7155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-igaming-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pagcor","tag-pogos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155","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=7155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010525,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions\/777010525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}