New theatre of terror? In the so-called war on terror, Cambodia is a sleepy outpost on a tense South-East Asian front that stretches from the Philippines to Thailand.

在所谓的反恐战争中，在从菲律宾延伸至泰国的东南亚紧张前线中，柬埔寨是一个安全的边缘地区。

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When the United States took control of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War in 1898, one of the first things the U.S. did was send in American teachers.

当美国控制了1898年美西战争后的菲律宾时，美国人要做的重要的一件事就是：送美国的教师来。

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He signed up to serve his adopted nation for six years - first in Japan and the Philippines, then in the Persian Gulf during the first war with Iraq.

他与这个收留了他的国家签订合同为其服役已经有六年了，刚开始是在日本和菲律宾，在第一次伊拉克战争时期到了波斯湾。

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If war broke out,it said, he was to attack the Spanish naval force in the Philippines.

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Wiggins served as Army staff sergeant in the Philippines and Japan during World War II.

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True, the United States Navy under Admiral George Dewey had ousted Spain from the Philippines in the Spanish-American War of 1898.

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