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 ...

barring any further appeals from the Church Manila: Single mother Christina Bantasan clutched her baby in the shadows of a sprawling Philippine slum, wishing that a controversial birth control law ...

MANILA, Philippines – Women from three slum communities in Manila filed a petition before the Court of Appeals (CA) to allow them access to contraceptives in public clinics, seeking to revoke a ...

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 ...

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.

After two consecutive typhoons and the constant deluge of the seasonal monsoon, on July 10, 2000, Payatas, the massive mountain of garbage in northern Metro Manila, collapsed. At least 300 people — ...

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 ...

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 ...