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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Thousands take to streets as philippines protests flood control fraud | History Defined

Protesters take part in a rally as they demonstrate against phony flood control projects, one of the country's biggest corruption scandals in decades, in Manila on September 21, 2025. (Credit: AFP)

Thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in Manila to express their anger over a ballooning scandal involving bogus flood-control projects believed to have cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

Rage over the so-called ghost infrastructure projects has been mounting in the Southeast Asian country since President Ferdinand Marcos put them centre stage in a July state of the nation address that followed weeks of deadly flooding.

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