The Manila city government’s decision to revise garbage collection fees for businesses—its first update in more than a decade ...
Residents of Manila City, the Philippines' capital, assailed Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso for implementing anti-poor waste policies, increasing ...
A slim majority of Filipino families rated themselves poor at the end of 2025, according to the fourth quarter survey ...
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Needed: A Metro Manila government

Metro Manila is often included in the list among the “worst” metropolitan areas to live in. It is usually ranked with metropolitan areas like New Delhi, Jakarta, Calcutta and Dhaka.
About half of Filipino families, or 51%, said they consider themselves poor, up by one point from September 2025 but below ...
Residents of Happyland, a poor hamlet in the village of Tondo in Manila, has marked Holy Week with a protest march against the stockpiling of coal in the middle of their community. Carrying cardboard ...