Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is one of the most crowded cities on Earth. An estimated 200,000 people live in a single square mile in some neighborhoods - nearly three times the density ...

In a crowded slum community on Soi Thung Klom-Tan Man, East Pattaya, on February 28, authorities found a 38-year-old man, ...

Slums cannot be cleaned out all at once except ... and people can live decently in crowded quarters if they have heat, hot water, bathrooms, fire escapes, as well as light and gas.

“We define ‘villa miseria’ (‘misery slums’) as highly crowded concentrations in which there are no roads, but passages, with vertical growth and far more difficult to urbanize ...

On one side are multimillion-dollar mansions with swimming pools. On the other are crowded slums where residents have had to build up the hillside. More from News After a four-year legal battle ...