Manila, Jan. 14 -- President Rodrigo Duterte is considering regulating the number of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) in the country.
In an exclusive interview with ABS-CBN, the President believes imposing restrictions on POGOs would reduce the high cases of corruption, extortion, and kidnapping linked to the operations of online gaming. "It's a game for the overseas Chinese, but the thing is, this kind of, especially gambling, breeds so many things: corruption, increase in crimes of extortion and kidnapping," Duterte said in an interview aired by dzMM on Monday. "If you add more to this number, presently operating, you will not be able to police them all. So you have to set a number for that. It cannot be in every town and cit...