A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. Drone footage from the Manila ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A fire and a powerful blast ripped through a small cargo ship docked to refuel in the Philippine capital of Manila on Saturday, injuring at least six people and igniting a ...

Not every desperate father would do what Romeo Roga did. His 1-year-old son was suffering from measles and the poor stevedore needed cash to pay for his medical bills. Carrying sacks of rice at Manila ...

MANILA, Philippines — When six plainclothes policemen, hands gripping their holstered guns, charged down the winding alleys of the slum where Edwin Panis lives, he didn’t imagine they could be coming ...

Too poor to afford fresh meat, street hawker Loida has come up with clever ways to make the dish monok tasty yet affordable to slum-dwellers. Tondo, Manila: In its simplest form, monok is an ...

Mary Grace Aves is terrified of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, but the best weapons to protect her family -- isolation and sanitation -- are unreachable luxuries in the Manila shantytown they call ...