From ghost projects to grassroots future: the Gwadar Haq Do Tehreek and reclamation of failed development in Gwadar, Balochistan In this paper, we delve into the lingering spectral presences resulting from the failed China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructural endeavour in Gwadar, Balochistan. We focus specifical...

What happens to infrastructure after development fails?

Part of the Ghost Projects Special Issue 

Read the full article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0143659...

#ThirdWorldQuarterly #GhostProjects #Infrastructure #CPEC #Balochistan

From siomai to SOPs: AMLC bares a P120B money trail as Jonathan So and Carlito Macadangdang allegedly dive into DPWH 'ghost' flood-control projects in Bulacan For nearly two decades, childhood friends Jonathan Payawal So and Carlito Macadangdang sold themselves as hotshot entrepreneurs.

AMLC also found that Topnotch received ₱103.11 million in check deposits from One Frame and its president between 2023 and 2025, concluding that both firms “actively participated in diverting government money for their own benefit.”

#floodcontrolscam
#ghostprojects

From siomai to SOPs: AMLC bares a P120B money trail as Jonathan So and Carlito Macadangdang allegedly dive into DPWH 'ghost' flood-control projects in Bulacan For nearly two decades, childhood friends Jonathan Payawal So and Carlito Macadangdang sold themselves as hotshot entrepreneurs.

“AMLC reckoned that So and Macadangdang’s financial rise coincided with the DPWH flood control project pivot of JC Premiere Business International, which the duo put up in 2019 with a “meager” paid-up capital of ₱31,249.50.”

#floodcontrolscam
#ghostprojects

Adaptation — the shield that could have saved lives — remains weak, underfunded, and often lost in the maze of bureaucracy and corruption. “Ghosts We Have to Face” is a trilogy about these failures.

Read: zurl.co/U9OSD

#ClimateChange
#Floods
#GhostProjects
#BWorldPH

For many Filipinos, 2025 has proven to be one of the most memorable and consequential years in modern Philippine history — mostly in a bad way.

Read: zurl.co/iyDqV

#AnnusHorribilis
#GhostProjects
#FloodCorruption
#PhilippineGovernment
#BWorldPH

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Something clicked in my brain when I remembered about Project NOAH.

Discaya admitted that when she was in DPWH, flood control projects started in 2016. The year Duterte started.
In 2017, under Duterte administration, the government shut down Project NOAH due to "lack of funds".
Project NOAH was […]

So when are we getting rid of these corrupt politicians? How many more lives, houses, and jobs are we going to lose just so taxpayers can fill up your pockets?

#PhilippineGovernment #Corruption #FloodControlProjects #GhostProjects #PHPol #Typhoon #Floods

New Dept of Public Works and Highways chief Vince Dizon has spent his first week on the job just ripping through all the shit and shouting at people in the process

GOOD. I like this guy.

(English-language newscast, English subtitles in the chyrons)

#GhostProjects #DPWH

Exploring the depths of one of Kenya’s most significant financial scandals, where over Ksh 63 billion was lost to non-existent dam projects.
#lestweforget #GhostProjects #ArrorKimwarerScandal #Sh63BillionLoss #KenyaCorruption #HenryRotich #KamauThugge #CMCdiRavenna #ToyotaKenya #TuskerMattresses