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MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Audit (COA) has filed another set of fraud audit reports (FARs) with the Office of the Ombudsman, this time flagging four additional ghost flood control projects ...

Socialite-vlogger Small Laude has spoken up on the raging controversy surrounding the alleged “ghost projects” in the country’s flood control program, expressing frustration over corruption that ...

The alleged ghost and substandard flood control projects found in La Union will be declared as “crime scenes” to prevent any intrusion, Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, special adviser to the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Prop pipes, not measuring past an arm’s length, were used to disguise a P179.4 million ghost flood control project in La Union. Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) ...

Cardinal Jose Advincula, archbishop of Manila. As calls for transparency in flood control projects grow among sectors and civil society, Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jose Advincula urged religious ...

The Philippines on Saturday named the first members of an independent commission tasked with investigating a spiraling scandal into bogus flood control projects that has already seen numerous ...

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ORMOC CITY, Leyte — The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Leyte 4th District Engineering Office clarified that the district has no “ghost” flood control projects. This was in response to ...