The Philippines has finally approved Golden Rice, a genetically engineered crop designed to combat vitamin A deficiency. Greenpeace, never content to let evidence guide its agenda, has trotted out ...

TAGKAWAYAN, Philippines (Reuters) - A brightly decorated wooden trolley rumbles down a little-used rail track in the southern Philippines carrying four young teachers, two on the front and two in the ...

A child-focused charity has called for the safety and welfare of children from 5.6 million poor families in the Philippines who are exposed to various risks and hazards from natural disasters. While ...

MANILA, October 10, 2025 - Hundreds of thousands of children have been forced to flee from their schools and homes in Mindanao province in the southern Philippines after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake - ...

MANILA, (October 28, 2024) – One of the strongest storms to hit the Philippines this year has disrupted learning for more than 90% of children enrolled in education after leaving a trail of death and ...

Slum dwellers from around urban poor communities in Manila marched in the streets days before Christmas to reenact the travails of Joseph and Mary in search of lodging. The poor residents dramatized ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — In a crackdown bearing the Philippine president-elect's name, police have rounded up hundreds of children or their parents to enforce a night curfew for minors, and taken ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Each night, police in teams of about a dozen fan out across the most rundown areas of the Philippine capital, rounding up slum-dwellers who linger in the streets, or teenagers who ...

A Catholic bishop in the Philippines said his government's controversial war on drugs is really a war against the country's poor. "There is no war against illegal drugs, because the supply is not ...

In September 2020, the Supreme Court of the Philippines acquitted a man of child sexual abuse charges after he impregnated a 12-year-old girl. The incident took place in 2012, when the man was 27. He ...

Taking photos of poor people is nothing unusual for me, as the poor comprise more than a fourth of the Philippine population of nearly 97 million. They are also the most vulnerable during disasters ...