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IN recent weeks, news media have been reporting youth gangs involved in fistfights, stabbing and riots across Metro Manila.

Manila: Food poverty in the Philippines fell sharply in the fourth quarter of 2025, signaling easing pressure on households as food access improved and prices stabilized amid government interventions, ...

An estimated 4.5 million Filipino families no longer consider themselves poor as shown in the self-rated poverty, registering the largest single-quarter improvement ever observed, declining by 17 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) linked the sharp decline in food poverty in the fourth quarter of 2025 to the expansion of government rice programs and other food supply ...

In Pakistan, some gyms offer street kids a chance to escape poverty through MMA. Follow these young fighters inside and outside the cage in episode 2 of Kids Fight. Scientists warn of ...

Poverty, faith, and family shaped the journey of Mylene Jane Gamayon De La Cruz, a former Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiary from Barangay Liboran, Baungon, Bukidnon, who landed Top ...

For 23-year-old Ariel John Elic, a government program is more than just a policy. It is the roof over his family’s head and the path to a degree. A Political Science student at Jose Rizal Memorial ...

Malacañang on Monday said hunger incidence and poverty self-rating among Filipinos have declined, crediting the ...

The shock waves of the COVID-19 pandemic have reverberated throughout the world. But the latest data reveal that the burden of COVID and its aftermath does not rest equally. In six graphics, Nature ...

Several global trends are colliding with disastrous consequences for health and the environment, new research warns. Plastic production has skyrocketed since the 1950s, from a few million tons a year ...