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.
Philippine ex-President Rodrigo Duterte, who left a savage legacy over his deadly anti-drugs crackdown, was arrested on an ...
A huge fire has broken out in the Filipino capital city of Manila, in a closely built slum area. The Manila Fire District said that around 1,000 homes have been completely burned in the blaze ...
“We can collect enough water to wash our hands, clean our dishes, flush the toilet – and one of us gets to shower,” she said, outside her home in Addition Hills, one of Manila’s most dangerous and ...
Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, arrested yesterday on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged ...
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.
In the slums of Manila, Kiwi nurse Jessa Pontevedra goes from shack to shack, using a new tool to fight tuberculosis. Nicholas Jones and Mike Scott went with her. It’s often necessary to crouch ...
Consuming pagpag leads to stunted growth in children, and heightens the risk of acquiring hepatitis A, cholera and typhoid Despite the government’s incremental success at reducing poverty ...