In the slums of Manila, 11-year-old Ginto dreams of gang life over scavenging, rejecting his sister Asia’s care as she | ...
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Needed: A Metro Manila government

Metro Manila is often included in the list among the “worst” metropolitan areas to live in. It is usually ranked with metropolitan areas like New Delhi, Jakarta, Calcutta and Dhaka. And yet, some of ...
Rescue workers were searching for at least 34 sanitation workers who were trapped after a mound of garbage buried them at a dump in the central Philippines. At least one person has been confirmed dead ...
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The luckless fate of living dangerously

IT is a drill that takes place every so often with such boring regularity that it is hardly news: government workers relocating those living and farming in a six-kilometer “dangerous zone” off the ...
An Estonian vlogger has been arrested for alleged voyeurism and calling locals 'monkeys' in the Philippines. Siim Roosipuu, 34, reportedly filmed women without their consent as he explored Negros ...
MANILA: The death toll from a landfill landslide in the central Philippines rose to 22 a week after the accident, local officials said on Thursday (Jan 15).
The most famous – or infamous — of these dumpsites was the 17-story Smokey Mountain, covering 20 hectares on the outskirts of ...
Br Doug experienced the work of St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria from a young age. His parents were involved in the society, and he remembered them going to help families with an unspoken ...
After days of heavy rainfall, a mountain of waste collapsed in the Philippines last week, burying dozens of people. As of ...
Mumbai: Several wards in the city have witnessed a proliferation of candidates in the BMC elections, particularly in areas with relatively homogeneous voter profiles such as slum clusters, besides ...
The House of Representatives keenly awaits Senate approval of a House-approved measure authored by ex-Speaker Ferdinand ...
Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development P. Narayana noted on Monday (December 29, 2025) that Visakhapatnam has the highest number of slum areas in the State. He announced that the ...