TANAUAN, Leyte, Philippines -- The Philippines, a nation made up of thousands of islands, is home to about 1.6 million people who work in fisheries, and the majority of those fishers are small-scale ...

On a good day, when it isn’t raining and the traffic in Manila is moving smoothly, it takes two hours to drive from the University of Santo Tomas here to the village of Malasa. For the past eight ...

Only 35 miles from Manila, the Philippine barrio (village) of Santo Nino is a town out of the Middle Ages—without plumbing, electricity or medicine. One cause of Santo Nino’s squalor is its isolation; ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TANAUAN, Leyte, Philippines (AP) — The ...