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Chinese Offshore Gaming Drives Filipino Economy, Causes Tensions

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Mar 13, 2019
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On Feb.9, a 23-year-old student named Zhiang Jaile, exasperated because she wasn’t allowed onto a Manila light rail car carrying food, threw her tofu drink at a Philippine police officer, William Cristobal, igniting a national debate over growing irritation with Chinese citizens flooding into the country, most of them connected with the offshore gaming …

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