Here are today's headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world: - DOF: Corruption in flood control projects cost PH economy up to P118.5 billion - DPWH suspends bidding of locally funded projects amid flood control mess - Marcos orders ‘necessary corrections’ in proposed 2026 DPWH budget - With brooms in hand as symbol for change, Indonesian women join Jakarta protests - Alex Eala stays unbeaten vs Dutch foe to reach Guadalajara Open last 16
00:08The economy may have lost around 42 to 118 billion pesos in the last two years due to corruption in flood control projects
00:21Newly appointed Public Works Chief Vince Deason suspends biddings for all locally funded infrastructure projects
00:27President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. orders, quote, necessary corrections in the 2026 budget of the DPWH
00:33Carrying brooms, Indonesian women join protests against lawmakers' perks and police brutality
00:39And Filipino tennis star Alex Ayala beats Arian Hartono of the Netherlands at the Guadalajara Open in Mexico
00:45The Department of Finance says the country's economy may have lost around 42.3 billion pesos to 118.5 billion pesos in the last two years
00:55Due to corruption in flood control projects
00:57Finance Secretary Ralph Recto discloses this figure during the second day of the Senate Finance Committee's briefing with the Development Budget Coordination Committee
01:04He says the economic losses could have created around 95,000 to 210,000 jobs for Filipinos between 2023 and 2025
01:12Recto says, quote, raising revenues is no joke and you see that it's not going to the right projects to benefit Filipinos
01:18Other projects even became ghosts
01:21Recto even said in an interview, the economy may have grown faster if flood control funding had been properly used
01:26The Marcos administration missed its economic growth target in the last two years
01:31Newly appointed Public Works Secretary Vince Deason orders a nationwide suspension of the bidding for all locally funded infrastructure projects
01:40As the agency faces scrutiny over alleged ghost flood control projects
01:44In a press conference, Deason says
01:46We need to review and review based on the President's directive to clean house
01:56He adds the President made it clear that he does not want the people's money and projects to be thrown into the river again
02:02The suspension covers all bidding for DPWH infrastructure projects including roads and flood control across its national, regional, and district offices
02:10Deason also says the DPWH review team has been tasked to introduce new safeguards in the bidding process
02:16In the same press conference, Deason says the Department has asked the Department of Justice to issue an immigration lookout bulletin order
02:22Against several DPWH officials and contractors allegedly involved in ghost flood control projects
02:27The list, which Deason said is not yet final, was based on the ongoing Senate and House probes into the flood control controversy
02:34President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. orders Public Works and Highways Secretary Vince Deason and Budget Secretary Amena Pangandaman
02:42To review and make the necessary corrections to the proposed 2026 budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways
02:48This amid insurgents flagged by senators in the P880 billion proposed budget of the DPWH for 2026
02:54And alleged anomalies in flood control projects
02:57In a news briefing, Palace Press Officer Claire Castro says some completed DPWH projects were allotted funds in the proposed 2026 NEP
03:05Citing information from Deputy Speaker Ronaldo Puno and Marikina First District Representative Marcy Teodoro
03:11Ito po ay pag-aaralan mabuti kaya po ang DBM, pati po ang DPWH, ay bubosisiin po ito talaga
03:19Kung totoo bang nagkaroon ng mga duplication, nagkaroon ng insertion, dapat po kasi matanggal ito
03:26Marcos issued the order two days after expressing concern over insurgents in the 2026 National Expenditure Program
03:33Saying the budget needs to be cleaned out properly
03:36Hundreds of women joined protests in Indonesia's capital against lawmakers' perks and police brutality
03:43Brandishing brooms as a symbol of their calls for reform
03:46This while the president flew to China for a military parade
03:49The Alliance of Indonesian Women say the brooms symbolize a need to quote
03:52Sweep the state's dirt and the repressiveness of security forces
03:55The protests that started in Jakarta last week have shaken the world's third-largest democracy
04:00Spreading across the country after a police vehicle struck and killed a motorcycle taxi driver on Thursday night
04:05Rights groups say 10 people have died in the protests, which have also sparked looting and rioting
04:11Alex Ayala stays unbeaten against a familiar foe to advance of the last 16 of the Guadalajara Open in Mexico
04:18Ayala extends her winning streak over Arjan Hartono of the Netherlands after her 6-2-6-2 victory
04:23To start her campaign in the WTA 125 event at the Pan American Tennis Center in Dapopan on Wednesday, September 3, Manila time
04:30Ayala quickly took a 3-1 lead in the first set by breaking Hartono's serve twice in the first three games
04:35She went on to win the match in just one hour and eight minutes
04:39This was Ayala's third win over Hartono this year
04:41After also beating her in straight sets at tournaments in Australia and India last January
04:46Currently ranked No. 75 in the world, Ayala is aiming for her first WTA title
04:50Hoping to make history again after becoming the first Filipino to win a Grand Slam main draw match in the Open Era
04:55Next up for Ayala in Guadalajara is American qualifier Varvara Lepchenko
04:59Who defeated Australia's Madison Inglis
05:01And that's today's wrap
05:04I'm Julian Sirineo
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