By Kate McGeown
For the first four months of this year, Captain Alex Caniete was held hostage half a world away from his native Philippines.
His ship had been captured by Somali pirates as it approached the Gulf of Aden, and his old slow vessel was no match for the gun-toting pirates in their speedboat.
Capt Caniete is not the only Filipino affected by piracy.
"Every time there's a report of a ship hijacked off the coast of Somalia, almost always there's a Filipino involved," admits Deputy
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