MANILA, Philippines (AFP) – Philippine slum dwellers hurling rocks, improvised explosives and human excrement fought running battles with riot police Monday around a sprawling Manila shanty town that ...

The slums of Manila are about the worst place you could possibly be during a typhoon. Clinging to riverbanks or perched over bay waters on spindly stilts, they are easily destroyed, overwhelmed by ...

On Thursday evening, PanAsia and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture hosted sociology professor Marco Garrido for a lecture on class segregation in the Philippines. Garrido ...

Two hundred meters from my home is a community of informal settlers. Their houses, mostly made of flimsy materials, stand in stark contrast to those of people who live in posh subdivisions. The ...

This is the shocking moment Manila slum residents hung their clothes out to dry on the city's power lines. Kyy Meneses was passing by Crisolita Street when she saw a local placing damp, newly-washed ...

MANILA, Philippines — Delegates attending an international conference in the Philippines capital may not see what they came to discuss: abject poverty. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...