War veterans’ monthly pension raised to P20,000
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law increasing the monthly old-age pension of war veterans. Under Republic Act No. 11164, ...
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US warship’s wreckage found
WASHINGTON"•Researchers announced Saturday they have discovered the wreckage of the lost warship the USS Indianapolis, and 72 years after the ...
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Mitsubishi and World War II
Last June, the Mitsubishi company of Japan, known by its iconic trademark composed of three symetrically positioned diamonds, celebrated its ...
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A different view of the Pacific War
Tomorrow, April 9, 2017, marks an important occasion in the history of World War II in the Pacific—the seventy-fifth anniversary ...
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December 7, 1941 and beyond
Tomorrow, December 7, marks the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the American naval installation at Pearl Harbor in ...
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Sex slaves issue heats up again
TOKYO—Japan says it has fou\nd no evidence its World War II government and military forcibly rounded up women to be ...
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SEOUL—South Korea on Sunday dug its heels in ahead of talks with Japan over the thorny issue of wartime sex ...
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Japanese ship found after 70 years
MICROSOFT co-founder Paul Allen said Wednesday he had found one of Japan’s biggest and most famous battleships on a Philippine ...
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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.