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 — ...

Nearly 10 months ago, Rodrigo Duterte became president of the Philippines and turned ... also known as Metro Manila. More than 4 million people live in slums like this one. Jobs are scarce ...

By 2008, for the first time, the global urban population had outnumbered the rural population. The Sustainable Development ...