Fire officials said a rocket lit by revelers set an abandoned hut ablaze, sparking a fire that razed about 1,000 shanties in Manila's Tondo slum district and displacing several thousand families.

Isla Puting Bato sits in the district of Tondo, which is Manila’s largest slum area home to roughly 654,220 people. Many live in shabby shacks across densely packed streets near a busy ...

Vehicle torched at 4:20 a.m. in Tondo, Manila during rainfall Suspects broke window and fled on motorcycles while firing ...

MANILA — It was 3 p.m. in Tondo, Manila’s poorest and most densely packed slum. The body floated beneath a bridge in the brackish flow of a waterway off the Pasig River. Its knees, poking just ...

The fire spread rapidly through makeshift homes in Manila’s Tondo district, an official said, displacing 1,000 families. “It’s like you lit up a box of matches.” ...

MANILA — In Tondo, Manila’s poorest neighborhood, the dump site along Manila Bay is home to about 5,000 families. People have been living on garbage in this part of the Philippine capital for ...

In Tondo’s District 1 alone, the recorded number of active COVID-19 cases reached 81—the second-highest number of cases among all districts in Manila next to Sampaloc, which has 103 active cases.

MANILA, Philippines – An extension campus of Universidad de Manila (UDM), a public university, will soon rise in Barangay 101, Tondo. The P400-million government project, which is expected to be ...

MANILA, Philippines — Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso confirmed on Wednesday that the most densely populated district in the city — Tondo 1 — would also be placed on “hard ...

Isla Puting Bato sits in the district of Tondo, which is Manila’s largest slum area home to roughly 654,220 people. Many live in shabby shacks across densely packed streets near a busy ...