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Quo vadis, Philippines? Lessons on corruption from history

Greed and audacity in politics infuriate us. Many want to grab whatever they can get; they treat politics as a self-service store. Political culture is increasingly deteriorating, not only in the ...
Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ever — and now, the government has admitted that vast sums were embezzled from a ...
Thousands of demonstrators including from the dominant Roman Catholic church clergy are protesting in the Philippines, ...
According to the Philippine National Police, 119 rallies were organized by the Catholic Church, civil society movements, and ...
Protesters are calling out officials for substandard, defective or non-existent flood control projects in the Philippines, which is a flood-prone country.
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A look at the Philippines in the 1800s

Events during the last few months have reawakened in many Filipinos the feeling of patriotism. We have come to realize that the Philippines is really a beautiful and rich country that is suffering ...
Corruption is a psychological epidemic, a cancer eating away at our national dignity and our sense of worth as a nation.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered yesterday in the Philippine capital, Manila, to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal that has implicated top government officials and ...
In 2013, the USS Guardian, a $212 million U.S. Navy minesweeper, ran aground on a protected reef in the Philippines. The ...
To manage the demonstrations, more than 17,000 police officers were deployed in Metro Manila. The area around the ...