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Online Gambling Boom in Philippines Shows Risks to Poor Nations

In the mountainous, landlocked Benguet province of the Philippines, 22-year-old college student Carl Genesis Contero died by suicide in August after losing hundreds of dollars, including his school tuition, to online gambling. Contero, who was studying to be a police officer, left behind a five-page note apologizing to his family and pleading for the government to ban online betting, his mother says. Hundreds of miles away in the southern province of Bukidnon, 26-year-old gasoline station worker...

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