In a Border Guard Force (BGF) shelter in Myawaddy, Myanmar, Jun (not his real name) spent Christmas with 80 other Filipinos and an undetermined number of other foreign nationals. Most probably, they will also welcome the New Year there, waiting for the Friendship Bridge between Myanmar and Thailand to reopen. “I didn’t even know this country, Myanmar. I was not supposed to work here,” Jun said. He showed his round-trip tickets to China, which were unexpectedly canceled. Instead, he and two other Filipinos flew from Hanoi to Yangon on August 20. Jun, a mall administrator in Manila, found a job […]... Keep on reading: 81 Filipinos still trapped in shelter after Myanmar scam hub rescue