It is really bad, and it is not isolated to these projects. This happens in most countries of the world. These days politics are extremely corrupt. If you look at some international corruption rankings, they are a complete scam and joke. It does not even tell 10% of the real story.
Help Philippines, don’t let this just pass by like another headline.
How exactly do you think outsiders can help with this? At most other people's countries could make sanctions against it, but that would require something more major for happen.