A fire has torn through a coastal town in the Philippine capital ... orange flames which had taken hold of the closely built slum area of Isla Puting Bato in Manila, on Sunday.

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 ...

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 ...