Ted ALJIBE/AFP/AFP Divers have spent more than a month searching a lake south of Manila for the bodies of men with links to the Philippines' bloody national obsession: cockfighting. They were murdered ...

“THE Case of e-Sabong and the Missing ‘Sabungeros’” sounds like the title of a crime-mystery-thriller novel. It may well become one if some enterprising producers turn this whole affair into a movie.

AT a recent gathering at the SMX Convention Center, one could observe an economy operating without spreadsheets, algorithms, or formal regulation—and yet functioning with remarkable precision.