PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Since March this year, the world has been going through the gravest health and economic crisis in 100 years due to COVID-19. As of this writing three days ago, it has infected 72,556,942 people and claimed 1,637,155 lives worldwide. The US...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House News reports have it that the question/debate surrounding the actual height of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, has finally been resolved. It is 8,848.86 meters or 29,032 feet, the Nepali government announced a few days ago. We...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The killing last of week of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the country’s capital Tehran has added fuel to the fire of tensions in the already precarious situation in the Middle East. We hope Iran, Israel, which is...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House In February, 2010, in Seoul, we proposed to then Foreign Minister Yu MyungHwan the establishment in Manila of a Philippines-South Korea University, following our much earlier discussions with then Korean Ambassador in Manila, HE Choi...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We sincerely thank God that at almost 84, the Lord has given us fair health and some residual energy. Before the onslaught of the global Coronavirus pandemic, which has harshly disrupted and claimed more than a million lives worldwide, we...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Elected as one of the youngest US senators in 1972 at the age of 29, Delaware’s favourite son seems to be the would-be oldest-elected president of the United States, at 77. We do not wish to speak yet with finality on Biden’s victory...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We are still pushing our old “Billion Trees” program for the Philippines and hopefully for other countries which we launched when we had the good fortune, by God’s grace, to be elected five times as speaker of the House of...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The United Nations celebrates its 75 th founding anniversary this year in the midst of the raging coronavirus plague, which has infected more than 40 million people and claimed more than one million human lives worldwide, devastated the...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House In our column last September 20, 2020, we underscored the important role of political parties in Asia and the international community as we in the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) observed our 20 th anniversary....
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Remarks of former speaker Jose de Venecia, founding chairman of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), co-chairman, International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP); and special envoy of President...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Igor Khovaev concludes his tour of duty in the Philippines with the Philippines-Russia ties in a remarkably robust condition since the establishment of our two countries diplomatic relations in 1976....
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House In our previous column, we discussed our founding and launching in Manila in September, 2000, of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), to serve as a forum for dialogue, understanding, and cooperation on issues...
