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, Philippines — 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 ...

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 — Some contractors with close ties to corrupt local government officials were able to secure flood control projects without public bidding. This was according to Quirino Gov.

After decades of catastrophic storms and severe floods triggered by intense monsoon rains, some parts of the Philippines prove that flood control infrastructures can hold water — when done properly ...

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, ...

Protesters are calling out officials for substandard, defective or non-existent flood control projects in the Philippines, which is a flood-prone country. Thousands of protesters marched in the ...

Two former Philippine government engineers have told a televised inquiry that most flood control projects, road and other infrastructures they helped oversee in recent years in a province near the ...