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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Several road sections will be closed for the celebration of the Feast of the Sto. Niño de Tondo in Tondo, Manila on January 19, 2025, according to the Manila Police District (MDP). In an advisory, MPD ...

The blaze displaced at least 2,000 families from the slum area, as it burned at ... at the Rosauro Almario Elementary School in Tondo on Saturday. Manila Mayor Honey Lacuña jointed him during ...