THE PHILIPPINES IS DROWNING IN CORRUPTION ₱1.089 Trillion ($18.9 Billion USD) of the government's climate-tagged expenditures since 2023 may have been lost to corruption, with a potential PHP 560 billion ($9.6 billion) of that in 2025 alone. Recent investigations in the Philippines have revealed a massive corruption scandal involving billions of pesos in flood control projects, which led to the resignation of the Public Works Secretary and triggered parallel inquiries in the House and Senate. Pu

Corruption has plagued the government for so long that many Filipinos have simply accepted it as a fact of life. But when a tough-talking mayor from Davao promised he would get rid of it in a few months, desperate voters ushered him in to Malacañang. After five years in office, what has happened to that promise? AC Nicholls takes a look www.cnn.ph | NewsWatch Plus Philippines