“Freedom has a taste to those who fight and almost die for it that the protected shall never know.” --Written on a cell wall in the Hanoi Hilton by an unknown author.

Some 71 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are expected to arrive on Thursday from Syria in two separate flights, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) said.

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 ...