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

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

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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 ...

The death toll from Typhoon Opong (international name: Bualoi) rose to 11 in the Philippines on Saturday as the cyclone bore ...

By AFP, Manila Tropical Storm Fengshen headed out to sea Oct. 19 after killing a family of five on the Philippines' main ...