The 14-year-old Jessa's unlikely success is as much a celebration of a unique effort by the Philippines' most famous prima ballerina, Lisa Macuja, to help slum kids of Manila by providing them a ...

A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday ... the cause of the fire disaster but blazes in Manila slums are often sparked by faulty electrical wiring ...

About 2% of slum dwellers worldwide can be found in the Philippines, an island nation. Source: BBC The capital city of Manila sits on the northwest coast of the Philippines. It contains a booming ...

The 14-year-old Jessa’s unlikely success is as much a celebration of a unique effort by the Philippines’ most famous prima ballerina, Lisa Macuja, to help slum kids of Manila by providing them ...

MANILA, Philippines (AFP) – Philippine slum dwellers hurling rocks, improvised explosives and human excrement fought running battles with riot police Monday around a sprawling Manila shanty town ...

The 14-year-old Jessa’s unlikely success is as much a celebration of a unique effort by the Philippines’ most famous prima ballerina, Lisa Macuja, to help slum kids of Manila by providing them ...

MANILA, Philippines – Delegates attending an international ... from the airport to downtown Manila that hides a sprawling slum along a garbage-strewn creek. Presidential spokesman Ricky ...

MANILA, Philippines -- New Year's firecrackers left ... sparking a fire that razed about 1,000 shanties in Manila's Tondo slum district and displacing several thousand families.