[Global Network Report] According to the Associated Press, on September 21st, when anti-corruption protests broke out in the Philippines, riots broke out near the presidential palace in the Philippines, and demonstrators had physical conflicts with the police. According to reports, the Philippine police arrested 49 people on the 21st, accusing them of throwing stones, bottles and incendiary bombs at the police and blocking roads and bridges leading to the presidential palace.

The report quoted Manila police as saying that about a hundred hand-held ¡°bulls¡± were involved in the riots, which resulted in about 70 law enforcement officers injured. It is not clear whether these people had participated in peaceful protests before they went to the presidential palace. It is unclear whether President Marcos of the Philippines was in the presidential palace during the riots. The police issued a statement after the arrest that the situation was ¡°controlled¡± and that it would not tolerate violence and destructive acts.

According to the Philippine Daily Questionnaire, people in more than 20 cities in the Philippines took to the streets on the day to protest government alleged corruption in flood prevention and other infrastructure projects. Among them, the Philippine government's losses due to the scandal involving fake flood prevention projects are estimated at $18 billion, about $1 trillion.