MANILA, Philippines — An estimated 1,000 families were left homeless in a fire that consumed reportedly half of the slum community of Isla Puting Bato in Tondo, Manila for over nine hours on ...

Tondo is Manila's biggest slum, home to over half a million people, many of them children. All of us in the team had been to some of the poorest corners of the earth, but Tondo was something else.

Like other slums in the Tondo area of Manila, Philippines, there’s no clean water supply or sanitation. Residents pay to fill water containers from a nearby condominium, and trenches funnel ...

Military helicopters doused the raging orange flames which had taken hold of the closely built slum ... Bato in Manila, on Sunday. Manila Fire District said around 1,000 houses were burned in ...

Three people died while four others were injured after a fire broke out in a residential neighborhood in Tondo, Manila on Thursday afternoon. The Bureau of Fire Protection - National Capital Region ...

Kumeta, 52, said he repeatedly asked himself, “what do I really want to shoot” and “what kind of film should I make,” when he recorded more than 200 hours of footage in the Manila slums.

MANILA, Philippines — Four persons died after fires broke out in Marikina and Tondo, Manila yesterday. In Marikina, the remains of the fatalities, two women aged 18 and 23 and a 55-year-old man ...

MANILA, Philippines — Three people, including an elderly couple, died after getting trapped in a fire that struck their house in Tondo, Manila yesterday. The remains of the couple and a 45-year ...