Amid the country’s biggest corruption scandal in recent history, the Philippine government is proposing a staggering 4,200 per cent increase in flood control management funds for 2027 following ...

MANILA, Philippines — A year after flood-control spending was frozen in response to a massive corruption scandal, the powerful Senate finance committee is backing its return in the 2027 budget, but ...

MANILA, Philippines — The massive flooding being experienced in Metro Manila and various areas in the country is the result of decades of failure to follow the 1941 master plan, according to a ...

SEVENTEEN years after Tropical Storm Ondoy devastated Metro Manila and parts of Luzon, Sen. Loren Legarda called for stronger and more comprehensive action to address worsening flooding, saying more ...

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 ...

Palace points to long-term planning gaps as storms expose fragile systems Dubai: The Philippines’ continuing struggle with severe flooding cannot be blamed solely on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is moving to update flood management master plans across the country as part of efforts to strengthen long-term flood ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Most flood ...