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.” ...

ABOUT 100 houses were damaged, and an estimated 300 families were left homeless in a fire that broke out in Tondo, Manila, on Tuesday night. A report from the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) relayed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...