Manila, June 19 -- The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) are working tirelessly to take down all illegal gaming websites, Malacanang said Thursday.

Palace Press Officer Claire Castro expressed worry over the apparent increase in the number of Filipinos getting addicted to online games.

In a Palace press briefing, Castro said the DICT has so far removed 7,000 unauthorized online gaming sites identified by PAGCOR.

"Ang problema po ngayon ng gobyerno ay marami pong ilegal na (The problem of the government now is there are many illegal) gaming websites," she said.

"Kapag po naipasara, mag-iiba na ng website. Pero hindi po titigil ang PAGCOR at ang DICT sa ...