Ms Tolentino on her daily boat ride - her mother is rowing them to the clinic Crissa Tolentino has long been resigned to floods as a way of life. The 36-year-old public school teacher takes a paddle ...

By bno - Jakarta Office The Philippines is grappling with a widespread controversy surrounding its flood control programme, with allegations of billions of pesos being siphoned off from projects meant ...

Article about the appointment of the first member of an independent commission to investigate a widespread corruption scandal ...

Over 3,000 students and lecturers from the University of the Philippines left their classrooms on Friday to protest against ...

The Philippines has spent P545 billion on flood projects since 2022. Yet hundreds continue to die each year from storms and ...

MANILA, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine weather bureau PAGASA on Monday raised a La Nina alert, citing a 70 percent chance of above-normal rainfall from October to December, likely to persist ...

Corruption accusations have fanned protesters’ anger, with calls online for a larger movement mirroring Indonesia’s recent ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said there’s no need to include flood control projects in the 2026 national budget, ...

FLOODING from heavy rains from Tropical Depression Isang and the intensified southwest monsoon stranded commuters and forced the suspension of classes in Metro Manila on Friday.

The Philippines on Saturday named the first members of an independent commission tasked with investigating a spiraling ...

"In the Philippines, the floodwaters rise every year, but the only thing that ever stays high is the water level of ...

Can substandard or, worse, non-existent flood control projects be corrected or constructed as soon as possible?