Tsuyoshi Kumeta first visited the Philippines in September 2012 to see if he could create a TV program about Japanese men who follow Filipino women to ... in poverty in slums in Manila.

She moved to Manila from Samar ... “Hunger is a reality in the Philippines. “People have been doing it for so long, it has been embedded in the subculture of the slums that eating pagpag ...

“We can collect enough water to wash our hands, clean our dishes, flush the toilet – and one of us gets to shower,” she said, outside her home in Addition Hills, one of Manila’s most dangerous and ...

A fire has torn through a coastal town in the Philippine capital ... which had taken hold of the closely built slum area of Isla Puting Bato in Manila, on Sunday. Manila Fire District said ...