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PCIJ REPORT| Inside a Chinese gambling entity: What happens, who works, how?

PCIJ REPORT| Inside a Chinese gambling entity: What happens, who works, how?

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May 09, 2019

In the bustling offshore gambling industry in the Philippines today, a conservative estimate of 100,000 people work. About 90 percent of them are mainland Chinese. In this interview, a Chinese customer service worker talks about how and why they came to the Philippines; their living and working conditions; incidents of misbehavior; and how the shops run and raise revenues from operations.