MANILA, Philippines – The government’s effort to clean up alleged corruption in infrastructure is meant to restore confidence in how public money is spent, but for now, the uncertainty surrounding the ...

Amid the country’s biggest corruption scandal in recent history, the Philippine government is proposing a staggering 4,200 per cent increase in flood control management funds for 2027 following ...

Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ever — and now, the government has admitted that vast sums were embezzled from a program meant to fight the problem. Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ...

Ace Aguirre was just two bites into his oatmeal on the morning of November 4 when he noticed something strange: mud had seeped onto the living room floor of his bungalow in Cotcot, a village in the ...

The Philippines has lost an estimated 42.3–118.5 billion Philippine pesos (US$713 million–2 billion) a year from flood control corruption since 2023. The scale of illegal wealth accrued by contractors ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Sandiganbayan 5th Division has denied the motion of Senator Jinggoy Estrada to be released on bail despite his plunder case stemming from alleged kickbacks from anomalous ...