MANILA, Philippines – Another batch of Filipinos, mostly overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), arrived from Syria via Emirates Air flight EK322 on Thursday afternoon.

Five million of us will book a summer holiday within the next few weeks. But if your dream trip turns into a nightmare, how can you ensure you won’t be out of pocket?

The country is so dangerous it's no wonder so many leave, travelling alone across the Middle East in search of a new life Behind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging bedrolls on the floor. The workers on the Salvation Army nightshift, who watch over these lone foreign teenagers in a shelter in a gritty corner of Paris, are distributing sheets and sleeping ...