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 ...

Manila, Feb 8 (AFP) 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHOTLIST MANILA, PHILIPPINES MARCH 18, 2020 SOURCE: AFPTV 1. Pan right packed houses at a slum near the river 2. Aerial shot slum area beside the river 3. Mid shot children playing at a slum house 4.

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) ...

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 ...