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A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday ... the cause of the fire disaster but blazes in Manila slums are often sparked by faulty electrical wiring ...

On Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the slum of Tondo in Manila, Philippines. Around 1,000 houses were destroyed in the blaze. Manila's mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan had the affected area declared ...

Manila, Philippines: The rich elite in cities across the world want to clear the slums which are now home ... that I realised immediately what the women cradling their kids and swaying ...

Nonetheless, the leader of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines ... For Bantasan and many women living in slum squalor, the need for the law is painfully obvious.

Philippine President Aquino, speaking in Jakarta on Saturday, revealed a plan to relocate half a million squatters from Manila to rural ... on the workers, aged, women and children below.

five more killed in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s relentless war on drugs. The residences within Manila’s slums are stacked haphazardly on top of one another, affording little privacy ...

It's 8 a.m. at the Jose Favella hospital in the Philippine capital ... Without those choices many women may still feel the need to seek out abortions. Here in Manila, that means a visit to ...

Advert The Philippines’ informal sector is growing and while government policies include them, the individual men and women ... In Metro Manila, an estimated 37 per cent of the population – or over ...

Single mother Christina Bantasan clutched her baby in the shadows of a sprawling Philippine slum ... ice treat stand near a Catholic church in Baseco, one of Manila's biggest slums. President Benigno ...