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 Our wife, former Congresswoman Gina, our son Congressman Christopher de Venecia, and we join the Aquino family, relatives and friends, and the Filipino people in mourning the untimely passing of the nation’s former President Benigno...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Opening statement of Hon. Jose de Venecia, founding chairman and chairman of Standing Committee, International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP); former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republic of the Philippines;...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Less than two weeks into our government’s nationwide inoculation against COVID-19, we are once again experiencing an alarming spike in new coronavirus cases in our country. More than 4,500 daily infections have been recorded on March 12,...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Remarks at a virtual rally organized by the Universal Peace Federation with the theme “One Million People Praying for the Healing of the Nation and the World”) May I congratulate the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) led by our...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We deeply thank God for adding another year to our life yesterday, December 26, and for granting us fair health and energy. For some time now we feel our “batteries” slowing down, but we are not complaining. Overall, we feel good about...
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 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 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 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 Today marks the 20 th anniversary of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), which we founded and launched here in Manila on September 17-20, 2000, to serve as a forum for dialogue, understanding, and cooperation...
