PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House In a move to halt the skyrocketing cases of COVID-19 in France, President Emmanuel Macron reimposed a (third) lockdown, throughout the country for at least a month. As of March 31, there have been some 4.56 million confirmed cases of...
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PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The mounting violence and racism against Asian Americans, including Filipinos, in various parts of the US are deeply troubling. Reports said that from March 2020 to February 2021, some 3,800 incidents of physical assault, verbal...
PEACE-MAKER (Remarks of Former Speaker Atty. Jose de Venecia Jr., at the Special Video Conference of the ICAPP Asian Cultural Council (ACC), March 19, 2021) Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Every aspect of our ordinary life is being challenged: Our security by extremist...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.” – William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) English writer, Edinburgh Review, Oct 1829 The trouble with hand injuries – fractures...
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,...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to enhance the military's operations by strengthening its knowledge of the people's basic rights. Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, AFP Chief of Staff (6th Infantry Division –...
Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) recently announced the 2021 rollout of its flagship economic housing brand Casa Mira in four more key cities in the Visayas-Mindanao region as the response to the massive demand for safe and secure value housing heightened by the pandemic. A study from Leechiu Property...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “Here I and sorrows sit...” – William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright King John , Act. iii, Scene 1 (1623) Does “work from home” mean sitting for long periods in front of the laptop too? Why is a zoom meeting done sitting down? Dr. Jose Pujalte,...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We join Roman Catholics around the world in praying for the safety of Pope Francis who boarded his plane for Iraq last Friday, indeed a historic but dangerous journey in the midst of the raging global pandemic and the recurrent violence in...
Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC) is aiming to earn P12 billion in core net income this year after registering a 34 percent drop in core profits to P10.2 billion in 2020 due to the economic contraction brought about by the pandemic. “We look forward to the gradual recovery of our...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House As of this writing, 600,000 doses of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccines donated by China are scheduled to arrive in Manila today, as announced by Malacañang a few days ago. With the availability of the vaccines, our government can already kick...
