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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.
Since then, the Philippines has become a major hub for online gaming catering to tens of thousands of players based in China. ... the POGO ban is good for Philippine-China relations. It gives us a ...
The POGO hub is situated in the property which is owned by Baofu Land Development, Inc. and is located behind the municipal building in Barangay Anupul, Bamban, [98] was twice raided by the authorities: in February 2023, for alleged involvement in cryptocurrency investment scams; [102] and in March 2024, due to allegations of human trafficking ...
The islands was developed into an online gambling hub under Oriental Game Ltd. [6] [7] Construction lasted from 2018 to 2021 before the POGO hub became operational. [8]The hub was noted for employing Chinese migrant workers, which raised security concerns due to its proximity to the Danilo Atienza Air Base in the context of the South China Sea dispute.
The police raid occurred at a barbed wired blue walled complex of seven buildings linked to Xinchuang Network Technology. The compound situated along Alabang-Zapote Road in Barangay Almanza Uno in Las Piñas, Metro Manila [1] is colloquially known as "Hong Tai".
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.
PAGCOR has stated that there are no Chinese-owned POGOs, and all POGO foreign licensees have Filipino partner firms. [3] While there is no official figure for the number of Chinese gambling workers in the Philippines, it is estimated that around 100,000 to 150,000 Chinese are employed in the Philippines. [4]
August 13 – The Ombudsman orders the dismissal of Alice Guo as mayor of Bamban, Tarlac for grave misconduct over her involvement in the operations of an illegal POGO hub in the municipality. [213] It also orders the suspension of vice-mayor Leonardo Anunciacion and seven of eight members of the Sangguniang Bayan of Bamban for three months on ...