The ongoing investigations and scandals regarding the flood control corruption have revealed the basic weaknesses in the Philippine political system.

"Let’s radically change our corrupt political system, forthwith!" CORRUPTION in the Philippines is a system, and like any ...

The legal battles of Duterte Youth and Gabriela Women's Party, along with accusations of red-tagging and selective ...

IN the turbulence of Philippine governance, few figures carry both the awe of promise and the weight of controversy like Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. To supporters, he is no ordinary ...

THE FloodGate scandal has become the symbol of everything rotten in the Philippine system of public works being contracted to entrenched cartels of favored companies, political patrons shielding their ...

Centreways, one of the 15 state contractors named by President Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr. in the on-going flood control saga, has not been accused of wrongdoing, or substandard projects, but its ...

The political landscape in the Philippines has been rocked by revelations of massive corruption involving flood control ...

Floods have become a familiar scene across the Philippines, submerging towns and cities with each season’s rains. This time, ...

Corruption in public spending is no longer just a governance failure; it has become a crisis of legitimacy. In the Philippines, after weeks of anguished revelations in both the Senate and the House of ...

Thousands took to the streets in Jakarta after it was revealed that 580 Indonesian parliament members received a monthly housing allowances of 50 million rupiah or P175,000. Protests spread quickly ...

The Napoles saga should have been a watershed moment, a call to overhaul how public funds are released and monitored. The ...

The possibility that retired police colonel and former state lottery official Royina Garma may be a witness for the ...