Thousands stranded at Manila airport after power outage – video
Thousands of passengers found themselves stranded after a power outage hit the airports communications systems
March 2016
Insider's guides
An insider's guide to Manila: where brutalism meets bamboo
Clara Balaguer shows us around her city – where hot chocolate is made with buffalo milk and brutalist architecture has been inspired by bamboo huts
February 2015
Real street food
Real street food: Adobong Baboy from Manila
Rich, unctuous pork adobo – meltingly soft meat flavoured with sea salt, coconut or cane vinegar, peppercorns and bay leaves – is popular with Filipinos from farm workers to the president, says food blogger MarketMan
December 2014
In Manila, malls aren't passe – they are the city itself
America has always had a big influence on the Philippines – but while malls in the US are closing, in Manila the shops, air conditioning and light-skinned models of its ‘supermalls’ are the very essence of urban living
May 2014
Blogger of the week
One-minute manifesto: how to improve Manila – video
Our blogger of the week, Kjerrimyr Rodrigo Andrés from Distinguished and Ever Loyal, talks us through what he would do to improve Manila
April 2014
Small Changes
The global battle for clean air – podcast
John Vidal travels to Manila, one of the top three most polluted cities in the world to see (and smell) the scale of the problem. Plus, Sam Jones reports on Mexico City’s programme to improve air quality
