Manila, Aug 20, 2025 (AFP) - Cockfighting livestreams thrive in Philippines despite ban and murders

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2025-08-20

Divers have spent more than a month searching a lake south of Manila for the bodies of men with links to the Philippines' bloody national obsession: cockfighting. They were murdered by rogue police, a government witness said, allegedly for rigging matches at the height of the country's pandemic-era craze for betting on live-streamed cockfights, or "e-sabong". The disappearances led then president Rodrigo Duterte to announce a total ban, but thr......

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