New president Ferdinand Marcos Jr promised a more compassionate approach to the Philippines’ war on drugs, but the shadow of ...

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 ...

Authorities on Tuesday seized P101M worth of kush (dried marijuana leaves) concealed in five balikabayan boxes in Tondo, Manila. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) reported that the boxes ...

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.

A fire broke out in a residential area in Barangay 123 in Tondo, Manila before dawn on Wednesday and quickly spread in the community. The fire started before 2 a.m. then became bigger and reached the ...

A massive fire ripped through 500 homes in a slum area in Manila. Drone footage shows the bright orange inferno engulfing homes made of flammable materials in the overcrowded Tondo district, at around ...