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 -- 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 ...

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 ...

Darwin Ramos, a Filipino former street child who died in 2012 due to a serious degenerative disease, is on his way to sainthood. Pope Francis declared Darwin "Servant of God," giving the Diocese of ...

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 ...

Men shot and left to bleed out on busy streets, mutilated corpses dumped in vacant lots. The bodies are piling up as President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war brings ...

A decades-old staple in the slums of the Philippines, known as pagpag or “second-hand fried chicken”, has unexpectedly trended on mainland social media. Videos of Chinese influencers and bloggers ...

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 ...

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) ...