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 ...

Philippine authorities have arrested nine people, including construction executive Sarah Discaya, dubbed the country’s “flood control queen,” on allegations of large-scale corruption involving ...

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 ...

Philippines relies on infrastructure for flood control Advocacy group flags ‘misalignment’ of flood control projects ‘Holistic’ risk management called for to protect communities BULACAN, Philippines ...

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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 — Flood control project or reclamation activity? This is the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)’s urgent concern in Laguna de Bay, after flagging a supposed ...

Former DPWH Engineer Brice Ericson Hernandez speaks during investigations on flood-control projects at the Senate Blue Ribbon committee in Pasay city, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. (Aaron ...