A fire has torn through a coastal town in the Philippine capital ... which had taken hold of the closely built slum area of Isla Puting Bato in Manila, on Sunday. Manila Fire District said ...

continued going to the Philippines at his own expense on 20 occasions over seven years, and he got to know more than 50 Japanese men living in poverty in slums in Manila. Some of them, including a ...

Manila (AFP) - A huge fire forced hundreds of Philippine inmates out of their cells and razed a sprawling shantytown near a Manila prison Friday, leaving thousands of residents homeless ...

Like other slums in the Tondo area of Manila, Philippines, there’s no clean water supply or sanitation. Residents pay to fill water containers from a nearby condominium, and trenches funnel ...

AS we gear up for 2025 national and local elections, the pressing need to address the vulnerabilities of informal settlers — ...

Tondo is Manila's biggest slum, home to over half a million people ... For Junalyn, Rosaly and the other poorest of the poor in the Philippines, a better life may not yet be within easy reach ...

She moved to Manila from Samar ... “Hunger is a reality in the Philippines. “People have been doing it for so long, it has been embedded in the subculture of the slums that eating pagpag ...