President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. launches a website where the public can report issues surrounding flood control projects, August 11, 2025. (Credit: Presidential Communications Office.) Listen MANILA, ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president and Congress have begun looking into possibly massive corruption in flood control projects that may implicate public works officials and engineers, ...

MANILA – Most flood control projects, road and other infrastructure projects built in a Philippine province near the capital in the last six years were substandard or overpriced to compensate for huge ...

Manila: A shocking Senate investigation reveals hundreds of fully paid but non-existent flood control projects from 2016 to 2025, costing Philippine taxpayers roughly ₱180 billion ($3 billion). With ...

Protesters take part in a rally as they demonstrate against corruption following the revelations over bogus flood control projects, one of the country's biggest corruption scandals in decades, at the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president and Congress have begun looking into possibly massive corruption in flood control projects that may implicate public works officials and engineers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — Public Works and Highways Secretary Vince Dizon on Thursday advised Wawao Builders General Manager Mark Allan Arevalo to turn himself in amid allegations that the latter’s firm ...