MANILA, Philippines Fire raced through a slum near the main port in the Philippine capital, leaving 4,000 people homeless and killing a 5-year-old girl, an official said Sunday. The Saturday night ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The ghetto called Aroma reeks of putrefying trash collected by its residents for recycling. Half-naked children with grimy faces play on muddy dirt roads lined by crumbling ...

A woman returns to her charred home after a fire at a slum area in Manila, the Philippines, July 2, 2025. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali) Residents search for their belongings as they return to their charred ...

Two hundred meters from my home is a community of informal settlers. Their houses, mostly made of flimsy materials, stand in stark contrast to those of people who live in posh subdivisions. The ...

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MANILA (Reuters) - One by one, Michelle Asinto's six children take the plate of rice doused in soy sauce and eat their share before passing it on. This is what a meal can look like in the slums around ...