TANAUAN, Leyte, Philippines -- The Philippines, a nation made up of thousands of islands, is home to about 1.6 million people who work in fisheries, and the majority of those fishers are small-scale ...

Join me on a peaceful day in the countryside as I search for apple snails along the river and cook them the traditional ...

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Only 35 miles from Manila, the Philippine barrio (village) of Santo Nino is a town out of the Middle Ages—without plumbing, electricity or medicine. One cause of Santo Nino’s squalor is its isolation; ...

On a good day, when it isn’t raining and the traffic in Manila is moving smoothly, it takes two hours to drive from the University of Santo Tomas here to the village of Malasa. For the past eight ...

Many newcomers arrive through the temporary foreign worker program at HyLife Foods, a Manitoba-based company that has a pork-processing plant in Neepawa. It brings an estimated 200 workers a year to ...

Despite ongoing efforts to prioritize rural-led development in the Philippines, rural poverty persists at a rate of 39.4%, significantly exceeding the national average of 26.5% and standing at more ...

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Philippines Mattress Market Outlook to 2021- Growing and Expanding Healthcare and Hospitality Sector to Augment Market Growth" report to their ...

Southeast Asian Fintech company Salmon said it has secured approval from the Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the central bank of the Philippines, to acquire a majority stake ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TANAUAN, Leyte, Philippines (AP) — The ...