MANILA, Philippines — Two women were held hostage by a man inside a shop along Recto Avenue in Manila yesterday afternoon. The suspect identified only as Jong was reportedly a fixer. Armed with ...

Tsuyoshi Kumeta first visited the Philippines in September 2012 to see if he could create a TV program about Japanese men who follow Filipino women to ... in poverty in slums in Manila.

She moved to Manila from Samar ... “Hunger is a reality in the Philippines. “People have been doing it for so long, it has been embedded in the subculture of the slums that eating pagpag ...

Now Rosaly lay waiting to give birth with dozens of other pregnant women crammed ... We'd come to Manila to report on the spectacular economic boom of the Philippines, one of several Asian ...