MANILA, Philippines — At least 2,000 families were left homeless after a massive fire tore through a slum area in Isla Puting Bato in Tondo, Manila on Sunday morning. According to the Office of ...

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.

The fire reached the second alarm, but it was controlled by responders at 10 p.m. —Vince Angelo Ferreras/RF, GMA Integrated News This article Fire hits residential area in Tondo, Manila was ...

MANILA, Philippines — Fire destroyed 30 houses in Isla Puting Bato, Tondo, early Thursday morning and left around 300 people homeless in Manila, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) reported.

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 — A man and his niece died after getting trapped in a fire that broke out at their house in Tondo, Manila on Sunday. Authorities said that after initially escaping the fire ...