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The POGO sector emerged in the Philippines in 2016 under Marcos’ relatively China-friendly predecessor Rodrigo Duterte, who critics say turned a blind eye to suspected illicit activities as the ...
MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos banned offshore gambling operators on Monday, targeting an online industry that the regulator has said is dominated by Chinese firms and ...
Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO), renamed Internet Gaming Licensees (IGL) in October 2023, [1] are firms operating in the Philippines that offer online gambling services to markets outside the country, with a significant portion catering to the Chinese market. POGOs began operating in the Philippines in 2003.
Katherine Cassandra Li Ong (born May 23, 2000), also nicknamed Cassy Li, [2] is a Filipino [3] businesswoman who was an associate of Lucky South 99 Outsourcing, Inc., a defunct Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) in Porac, Pampanga, that has been investigated by authorities for criminal activities committed within its compound.
[24] [25] Xionwei Technologies came into the news as the company took over the controversial pre-POGO operations of Jack Lam's Jimei International Entertainment which was operating out of Fontana Resort in Clark, Pampanga. Lam fled the Philippines in December 2019, when his company was found out to be employing 1,316 illegal Chinese workers.
In 2019, the Chinese embassy in Manila has expressed concern regarding the large-scale illegal recruitment of Chinese nationals in POGOs describing their plight as "modern slavery". It noted that some Chinese were illegally brought in the Philippines under tourist visas [ 7 ] and some had their passports confiscated by their Philippine-based ...
Here’s why it’s not illegal. Homeowners in Cheatham County, just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, are fuming after the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) surveyed their land for a potential ...
[17]: 102 Under POGO, the state-owned Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation issued licenses to be used for service providers to offer online gambling. [ 17 ] : 102 Most of the companies which obtained POGO licenses were Chinese, and their businesses primarily catered to the ethnic Chinese community at-large.