“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 is OK. Without the government ...

The words of a Japanese man in the slums in the Philippines also provided encouragement for Kumeta. “I want many people to learn that such a man exists here,” Kumeta quoted the man as saying.

Raging orange flames and thick black smoke billowed into the sky Sunday as fire ripped through hundreds of houses in a closely built slum area of the Philippine capital Manila. Manila Fire ...