A massive fire ripped through 500 homes in a slum area in Manila. Drone footage shows the bright orange inferno engulfing ...

A fire has torn through a coastal town in the Philippine capital, destroying a thousand homes and sending smoke billowing into the sky. Military helicopters doused the raging orange flames which ...

Manila (AFP) - A huge fire forced hundreds of Philippine inmates out of their cells and razed a sprawling shantytown near a Manila prison Friday, leaving thousands of residents homeless ...

Kumeta, 52, said he repeatedly asked himself, “what do I really want to shoot” and “what kind of film should I make,” when he recorded more than 200 hours of footage in the Manila slums.

Tondo is Manila's biggest slum, home to over half a million people, many of them children. All of us in the team had been to some of the poorest corners of the earth, but Tondo was something else.

Like other slums in the Tondo area of Manila, Philippines, there’s no clean water supply or sanitation. Residents pay to fill water containers from a nearby condominium, and trenches funnel ...