The anti-corruption protests, which took place across Manila and other cities, are the largest to take place since the ...
By bno - Jakarta Office With Super Typhoon Ragasa bearing down on the country, tens of thousands of Filipinos gathered in ...
By Arian S. Bataluna Political dynasties have long been a persistent issue in Philippine politics. Ever since the Spanish era ...
Philippine police have arrested 49 people suspected of attacking officers in violent clashes near the president palace ...
Business couple Pacifico and Sarah Discaya accused Philippine congressmen of demanding kickbacks for government flood-control projects during a televised Senate investigation. Their allegations, ...
President Marcos has created a new Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) to examine “misuse of funds in government ...
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Patronage politics: Likely root cause of corruption

The 1987 Constitution was meant to establish a democratic government, restore freedoms, protect civil and political rights and put safeguards against authoritarian rule. But almost four decades later, ...
Thousands of Filipinos joined marches in Manila and other areas in the country on Sunday, protesting against what organizers ...
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 cap ...
President Marcos said in July there were anomalies in most of the 9,855 flood control projects worth more than $9.5bn.
The Philippine president has encouraged the public to express their outrage over massive corruption that has plagued ...
Rallies are set to take place across the Philippines on Sunday in protest at what organizers say is widespread corruption in government.