The defence secretary has commented on the number of Chinese nationals working in government infrastructure projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.- Defence secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr<\/strong> has stressed that the government is keeping an eye on Chinese nationals employed by state-owned Chinese companies who are participating in government infrastructure projects.\u00a0According to The Inquirer, he said they were being monitored for potential covert acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Teodoro Jr raised concerns about the security risks posed by the substantial presence of foreign workers and potential job displacement among Filipinos. While he didn’t mention gaming, offshore gaming operators were one of the initial sources of the increase in Chinese workers in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2020,\u00a0only a quarter of the 120,000 POGO workers were Filipino. Finance secretary\u00a0Benjamin Diokno<\/strong>\u00a0has supported a move\u00a0to ban POGOs<\/a>, despite the potential implications for government revenue. The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR) initiated a review of POGO licensing<\/a>, requiring all licensees and service providers to reapply for licenses by September 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The defence secretary has commented on the number of Chinese nationals working in government infrastructure projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777007112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippine government is monitoring Chinese nationals in infrastructure projects for security risks, a concern that extends to the historical influx of Chinese workers for Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs). Amidst calls for a POGO ban due to security and job displacement concerns, PAGCOR has initiated a comprehensive re-licensing review for all POGO operators and service providers. This development signals a potential shift in the regulatory landscape for the iGaming sector in the Philippines.","focusai_entities":"Gilberto Teodoro Jr, Benjamin Diokno, The Inquirer, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR)","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO Ban Economic Impact?","query":"What are the projected economic implications for the Philippine government's revenue and foreign investment if a comprehensive ban on POGOs is fully implemented?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Evolution?","query":"How might PAGCOR's re-licensing review for POGOs influence the broader regulatory compliance and governance frameworks for other gaming verticals in the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911,15789],"class_list":["post-777009269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-pogos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009269","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=777009269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009284,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009269\/revisions\/777009284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777007112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777009269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}