Smoke continues to rise from the still-burning HTI (House Technology Industries) factory inside the Export Processing Zone Authority complex after the fire razed the compound, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines' top labor official says a rubber slipper factory where a fire killed 72 people has violated employment laws. Police and other agencies are conducting separate ...

A factory in the Philippines. The sector is looking forward to a better 2026. (INQUIRER FILE PHOTO) MANILA, Philippines — The ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A factory where a fire killed 72 people violated employment laws, the Philippines’ top labor official said Friday, as more witness reports emerged about the victims being ...

MANILA, Philippines – Police will open a criminal investigation into a Philippine factory fire that killed at least 72 people, as a relative of several of the victims said Thursday the blaze had ...

Traces of water vapor can be seen as a passenger plane flies through a dark smoke from a fire that continues to raze the House Technology Industries (HTI) factory inside the Export Processing Zone ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police are investigating as a criminal matter a fire that killed at least 72 factory workers who became trapped in the building’s second floor, where a relative ...

Factories and warehouses are seen along the Marikina River in Pasig City on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. —File photo by Grig C.

Firemen inspect the second floor of a warehouse following a fire in a Philippine factory. EPA MANILA, Philippines — Police will open a criminal investigation into a Philippine factory fire that killed ...

MANILA, Philippines -- The death toll in a rubber slipper factory fire in a suburb of the Philippine capital climbed to at least 45 on Thursday with another 26 people still missing in the gutted ...

The musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" based on the popular book by Roald Dahl is set for its Manila premiere later ...

The number of people who died in a fire at a footwear factory in the Philippines increased to 72, police said Thursday. The fire started just before noon on Wednesday and raged for over five hours on ...