PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Three days from now, on April 21, we will preside at the meeting of the 39-member standing committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), which we will do so from our respective homes or offices in different...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Since the onslaught of the Coronavirus pandemic in our country early last year, we have lost relatives, old friends, and former colleagues in the House of Representatives either due to COVID-19 or to other causes. We earlier mentioned in...
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...
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 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...
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...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The “Four Way Test,” of what we Rotarians think, say, or do in the Rotary Creed include the following: First: “Is it the Truth?” Second: “Is it Fair to All Concerned?” Third: “Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendship?”...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The UN, US, G-7, and many other countries and international organizations expressed either condemnation or grave concern over the military takeover in Myanmar and the detention of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint,...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We, Dagupeños, are proud of the appointment by US President Joe Biden of Filipina-American Camille Calimlim-Touton as deputy commissioner of the US Bureau of Reclamation. Calimlim-Touton’s parents, Carl Calimlim and Marlene Bangsal, are...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We are saddened by the turn of political events in the US days before the inauguration of former Vice President Joe Biden as president on January 20, three days from now. The intensity of the venomous atmosphere, violent protests and...
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...
