Bessang Pass remembered
"We remember our defeats but not this victory. " Yesterday, June 14, I remembered the Battle of Bessang Pass in ...
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An unbelievable story
"The Japanese, not as conquerors, but friends" This story, from the Japanese occupation, is an unbelievable one, but it ...
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Biggest fake news of the century
"This is what the best chief justice we never had really thinks." In my almost 70 years as a ...
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Vignettes of World War II
"I saw the best and worst of Filipinos." The resilience of Filipinos and their ability to adapt to ...
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A salient traditional holiday
We join the nearly 1.5 million Filipinos with pure Chinese ancestry —around 1.8 percent of the 106 million Filipinos to ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.