How a Corruption Scandal Over Flood Projects Rocked the Philippines

Allegations of widespread government corruption in flood infrastructure projects worth billions of dollars forced out two ministers from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s cabinet on Nov. 17, as pressure builds on the leader to implement sweeping reforms to root out a problem that has long plagued the Southeast Asian nation.

The scandal has sparked outrage and mass protests across the Philippines, a country highly vulnerable to deadly flooding, particularly after it emerged that much of the government-funded infrastructure was defective, or, in some cases, not even built.