Hungry and hopeless: slum life a struggle in the lengthiest of lockdowns MANILA (Reuters) - One by one, Michelle Asinto's six children take the plate of rice doused in soy sauce and eat their share ...

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 that ...

MANILA (AFP) – Three hundred homes were destroyed in a fire that tore through a slum in the Philippine capital on Thursday, forcing residents to make dramatic escapes, authorities said. A bare-chested ...

Single mother Christina Bantasan clutched her baby in the shadows of a sprawling Philippine slum, wishing that a controversial birth control law had come earlier so she could have planned her future ...

A resident pedals his tricycle, locally known as "pedicab", past a wall covered with a tarpaulin poster of the ongoing 45th Annual Board of Governors meeting of the Asian Development Bank at suburban ...

As many as 15,000 people are homeless after a huge fire engulfed an overcrowded slum in Manila, destroying thousands of homes and sending residents fleeing with their few possessions. The inferno ...

For poor families in the Philippines, electrical bills are a huge burden. But an old soda bottle, filled with water and bleach, can be turned into... In Philippine Slums, Capturing Light In A Bottle ...

MANILA (Reuters Life!) - In impoverished neighborhoods across the Philippines a karaoke machine is the one luxury the community will not do without. Crooning syrupy ballads around a television screen ...

Veronico Alfonso Jr., 35, and his family stay inside their tent at a makeshift evacuation center for residents whose houses were engulfed by a fire months ago, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ...