MANILA (PIA) — Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso broke ground Tuesday for Binondominium 2 in San Nicolas, marking the sixth vertical housing project launched under his ...

MANILA, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Firefighters on Wednesday placed under control a blaze that tore through a residential area in ...

The historic pre-trial of Rody Duterte at the International Criminal Court provides lessons that this and succeeding administrations must heed.

MORE THAN half of the world’s slum population lives in Asia and the Pacific—including the Philippines—a new regional report ...

The latest study by the state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies, or PIDS, showed that, relative to the World Bank's upper-middle-income country poverty threshold of $8.30 a ...

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is facing trial in The Hague for his unprecedented "war on drugs," which has killed thousands. Meanwhile, in the Philippines, the war on drugs continues.

Prices of goods exported by the Philippines rose at a slower pace in the fourth quarter of 2025, as softer growth in works of ...

Duterte and his allies have repeatedly denied the existence of an organised death squad or any direct involvement in ...

Background Rapid urbanisation and the dense population of Bangladesh foster the growth of slum settlements, where poverty and food insecurity are magnified by economic instability and inflationary ...

Indian teacher Rouble Nagi, left, receives the Global Teacher Prize award from Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed ...

From sachet use in Manila’s slums to a deadly landfill collapse in Cebu, the Philippines’ plastic crisis exposes a deeper ...