According to Global Wealth Report 2015, half of world’s wealth is now in the hands of 1% of population. In Manila, the Philippines’s capital, there is also a deep divide between the rich and the poor.

The Congregation of the Mission, popularly known as the Vincentians, has received praise from church authorities and lay faithful for distributing groceries and giving spiritual direction to Manila’s ...

“Madame Dinky get down from your throne and look at the conditions of poor older people,” says the banner carried by members of COSE, the Coalition of the Services for the Elderly in the Philippines.

The final resting places for the most affluent in Manila have become a last resort for the city's poorest looking for a home The makeshift house of Jocelyn De Los Santos sits atop a mausoleum in ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Manila city government has opened the President Corazon C. Aquino General Hospital, its seventh district hospital, which will benefit residents of Baseco Compound, one of the ...

THE Senate Committee on Finance has approved a P6.6-billion addition to the Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) to support poor students in college. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate ...