The government’s evacuation program for overseas Filipino workers in Syria remains in “full swing,” with the repatriation on Thursday of another 26 OFWs from the strife-torn Middle East country, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

4 May 2012 - The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) through the Philippine Embassy in Port Moresby will repatriate 55 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) stranded in Manus, Papua New Guinea. Philippine Ambassador to Papua New Guinea Bienvenido V. Tejano personally oversaw the repatriation. The Embassy also arranged a special flight for the OFWs from Manus to Port Moresby. The OFWs are set to ...

The 59-year-old has passed away nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds on the basis he had just three months to live.