{"id":75206,"date":"2025-11-17T22:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/nov\/17\/thousands-protest-in-the-philippines-over-disappeared-flood-defence-funds-video"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:38:39","slug":"thousands-protest-in-the-philippines-over-disappeared-flood-defence-funds-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75206","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest in the Philippines over disappeared flood defence funds \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half a million people gathered in Rizal Park in Manila on Sunday wearing white shirts and carrying signs reading &#8216;transparency for a better democracy&#8217;. Concerns rose after the country&#8217;s president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, published an internal audit into flood control projects in August that revealed significant irregularities. It showed that of almost $10bn in spending, thousands of projects were substandard, poorly documented or non-existent<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/manila-philippines-corruption-protest-flood-funds\">\u2018There is so much corruption\u2019: hundreds of thousands protest in Manila over missing flood funds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/nov\/17\/thousands-protest-in-the-philippines-over-disappeared-flood-defence-funds-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half a million people gathered in Rizal Park in Manila on Sunday wearing white shirts and carrying signs reading &#8216;transparency for a better democracy&#8217;. Concerns rose after the country&#8217;s president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, published an internal au&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,313,55,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-flooding","category-philippines","category-protest","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75207,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75206\/revisions\/75207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}