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Building complex in San Rafael, Bulacan, which has a POGO as its tenant. Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs), renamed Internet gaming licensees (IGLs) 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 emerged in 2016 and boomed in just a few years as companies capitalised on liberal laws to target customers in China, where gambling is banned. At their peak, some 300 POGOs operated in the ...
This also coincided with the Chinese government ban of all electronic casinos operating in mainland China. [2] Many POGOs employ Chinese nationals since they speak the same language to the Chinese customers they cater to. [3] PAGCOR has stated that there are no Chinese-owned POGOs, and all POGO foreign licensees have Filipino partner firms. [3]
[4]: 106 Cambodia banned online gambling effective in 2020. [4]: 106 Many of the Chinese gambling operators who left Cambodia after the ban did not return to China. [4]: 107 Instead, many migrated to Karen State, Myanmar, in the Myanmar-Thai border region where they established gambling operations. [4]: 107
4. Scrabble in Romania. Scrabble is a beloved pastime in the U.S. and around the world, but for a certain period of time, it was an illegal activity in Romania.
Books such as "Charlotte's Web," "Maus," "Animal Farm," and "The Color Purple" have been banned in some schools.
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
The recent surge in book bans in U.S. school districts and libraries is the latest front in a long-running battle that has swept up even literary masterpieces of John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger and ...