The family, including two children aged two and 11, were crushed to death when a tree fell on their house at daybreak on ...

Contrary to popular belief, the cost of living in the so-called Mega Manila or the provinces just outside Metro Manila is more costly than in the country’s capital, according to a congressman.

Despite a modest drop in its poverty rate, Bukidnon remains among the poorest provinces in the Philippines, with 27 percent ...

The storm is forecast to bring heavy rainfall and up to 2m high waves that will cause coastal flooding. Read more at ...

Cultural and religious norms, poverty and weak law enforcement continue to drive cases of child marriage in Sulu and ...

MANILA (Reuters) - The typhoon's name was Hagupit, which means "whiplash" in Filipino, and for the poverty-stricken rice farmers, fishermen, village workers and children of the eastern central ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of protesters took to the ... officials and businesspeople who allegedly pocketed huge kickbacks from flood-control projects in the poverty-stricken and ...

MANILA, Philippines - Eastern Samar posted the fastest economic growth among Philippine provinces and highly urbanized cities ...