Two former Philippine government engineers have told a televised inquiry that most flood control projects, road and other ...
Tens of thousands protest in Manila after revelations of a ₱545 billion flood-control scam involving fake projects and high-level kickbacks. Senate testimony sparks public outrage, arrests, and ...
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Corruption still kills: Lessons from earthquakes

CORRUPTION kills; it has and will take more lives than environmental disasters in the Philippines. It is 90 percent less ...
Clergy and religious along with lay Catholic faithful came out in droves at an anti-corruption rally in the Philippines ...
The local stock market sank further Tuesday, even as U.S. stocks rallied, as an ongoing investigation into massive corruption ...
The anti-corruption protests, which took place across Manila and other cities, are the largest to take place since the ...
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) on Tuesday condemned all forms of corruption in the country as it affirmed students ...
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Confronting the Philippine corruption crisis

Nothing has struck the Filipino public more indelibly in recent months than the optics: bundles of thousand-peso bills ...
Because democracy does not just live in parliaments or palaces. Democracy lives where people demand democracy. And right now, it is alive, and the screams are loud in the streets of Jakarta, Kathmandu ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of people were evacuated from northern Philippine villages and schools and offices were ...
Philippine police have arrested 49 people suspected of attacking officers in violent clashes near the president palace ...
The emergence of corruption charges over the past four months is bound up with the political volatility of the Asia-Pacific ...