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 ...

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 ...

Manila: As scenes of despair unfolded showing survivors of ... such tragedies will recur in Tondo’s slums. The fire serves as a stark reminder of the Philippines' ongoing urban fire crisis, where ...

Early Wednesday morning, the children of Musmos Daycare Center, in Manila’s Tondo slum, were supposed to be headed on an excursion to the nearby resort town of Tagaytay. Instead they spent the day ...