Philippine gaming chief aims to stop casino slideMuhammad Cohen

With less than two years remaining in his term as Pagcor’s chairman and chief executive, Alejandro Tengco hopes for a happy ending. He’s working to reverse the Philippine gaming market’s slump, impacting both Asia’s only legal domestic online gaming market and billion dollar casino resorts.

Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.