MANILA -- The blaze raced through flimsy shanties in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Philippine capital, fanned by the salty seafront breeze, Nally Elariog recalled. Within hours, she and ...

Executive Secretary Ralph Recto said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration has safeguarded the poorest Filipino ...

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The Marcos administration has shielded the country’s poorest families from rising prices by keeping inflation low and ...

Residents of Happyland, a poor hamlet in the village of Tondo in Manila, has marked Holy Week with a protest march against the stockpiling of coal in the middle of their community. Carrying cardboard ...

“Madame Dinky get down from your throne and look at the conditions of poor older people,” says the banner carried by members of COSE, the Coalition of the Services for the Elderly in the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines -- The human scavengers are in their shacks, asleep or drinking warm beer to fend off the tropical torpor. The only noise is the scurrying of a few rats and the distant bark of a ...