Speaker Lord Allan Velasco lauded his colleagues for the third reading approval on Monday, Sept. 20 of House Bill No. 10107 or the proposed Philippine Creative Industries Development Act. Velasco at AIPA Velasco said HB 10107 is “one of the measures we have identified that will help the country...
PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose C. de Venecia Jr. The United Nations general assembly commenced its 76th session last Sept. 14, amid the still raging COVID-19 pandemic, which has infected some 226 million people and claimed more than 4.6 million human lives worldwide, and increasing,...
PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Japanese Prime Minister Yushihide Suga announced that he was not seeking election as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which means that he will step down as Japan’s premier when his term as LDP leader ends on September 30 this year....
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Now that the Taliban have taken over the reins of government in Afghanistan, they now face their more difficult battle, that of governing and rebuilding their war-torn country. The future of some 38 million Afghans are now in the hands of...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Chaos, fear, and uncertainty overwhelmed the Afghan people, following the withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan, terminating its mission in the country which lasted 20 years. In just a few weeks since the pullout of American troops,...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Some international observers expressed fears that the election of Ebrahim Raisi, an ultraconservative judiciary chief, as president of Iran would usher in a period of uneasy relations between Iran and the United States. Raisi, who...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Like many international organizations, we in the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) had to indefinitely suspend some of our programs due to the raging global pandemic which, sadly, seems to have no apparent end in...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Perhaps not too many people know that before we became a pioneering businessman in the Middle East and North Africa in the 1970s until the early 1980s and then, with God’s blessing, a five-time Speaker of the House of Representatives, we...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Tomorrow, July 26, President Rodrigo Duterte will deliver his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA), with the COVID-19 plague still hovering over our country and around the world. It will be the second time that our nation...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The Asian, European, African, Latin American, Australian, and US parliaments could organize a program and send delegations to the North Korea legislature, their Ministers of Agriculture and Tourism might interact with their North Korean...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Remarks delivered at the UPF International Leadership Conference 2021 ‘Toward Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula: Peace and Security’ on July 7-8, 2021) Thanks to modern communication technology, we are gathered here...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Today we celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and the United States. This year our two countries also mark 70 years of the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT), which “enables close security cooperation and enhances...
