MANILA, Philippines — The ghetto called Aroma reeks of putrefying trash collected by its residents for recycling. Half-naked children with grimy faces play on muddy dirt roads lined by crumbling ...

THIS is what life is like inside the world’s largest slum in the Philippines where more than four million people live in squalid shacks and face fires, crime and deadly toxic fumes. Incredibl… ...

Many in Manila's slums survive on chicken scraps from trash bags. Called 'pagpag' it is part of a hidden food system for urban poor. Salvaged chicken is washed and resold by pagpag merchants ...

The slums of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, are among the most densely populated places on the planet: By some estimates, in some neighborhoods, more than 200,000 people live in a single ...

NEW YORK—“I didn’t know that there were highways in the Philippines and where are all the slums?” I was in shock when my friend made that comment as I flipped through my pictures on my ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines – Delegates attending an international conference in the Philippines capital may not see what they came to discuss: abject poverty. A makeshift, temporary wall has been ...

MANILA, Philippines — The film opens casually enough. Children wearing Halloween masks float, or roll, backwards. As we pay attention to the surroundings, we realize we are following the ...

For poor families in the Philippines, electrical bills are a huge burden. But an old soda bottle, filled with water and bleach, can be turned into a 55-watt bulb with the help of the tropical sun.

When Philippines' slums celebrate Christmas People in slums do not mind the lack of Christmas decorations in their homes, saying their community life compensates for it. In this photo taken on ...

MANILA, Philippines -- New Year's firecrackers left at least one man dead and 380 others injured, and caused a fire that gutted 1,000 shanties in the Philippines despite rain and a government ...