European Union (EU) Ambassador Luc Véron will visit the EU development and humanitarian projects and engage with local interlocutors in Central and Northern Mindanao from November 15 to 19. The European Union flag (Photo by Christian Lue/ Unsplash) In a statement, Véron said that his visit is a...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo is eyeing the abolition of the controversial National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) if she wins the presidential race in 2022. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP) Facing members of the Rotary Club of Makati in an online...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House As the world’s economic powers gathered in Rome for the G-20 Summit, Iran announced that it would resume nuclear talks in Vienna before the end of this month. Tehran’s announcement is a welcome development as it is a significant step...
Over 1,000 educators around the country were recently trained on utilizing newly-developed distance learning materials--the product of a collaboration between the U.S. Peace Corps and the Department of Education (DepEd). VIRTUAL TRAINING FOR TEACHERS-- Over 1,000 public teachers in the Philippine...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Our brother Oscar was 13 and we were 9 years old when we lost our dearest, loving 45-year-old mother Casimira to tuberculosis in September 1945, which left us with vast emptiness for a long time. Growing up in our hometown Dagupan, Oscar...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We join the American people in mourning the passing of a distinguished soldier and remarkable statesman, General Colin Powell. General Powell served as national security adviser during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, chairman of the Joint...
Presidential aspirant Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Tuesday said he has no qualms voting against granting a Senate Medal of Excellence to veteran journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa. Dela Rosa, a staunch ally of President Duterte, maintained he still believes Ressa does not...
PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose C. De Venecia Jr. We Filipinos should take pride that a fellow Filipino now shares the Nobel Prize stage with some of the world’s great men and women, like Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway,...
The Ateneo community joined the pouring congratulatory messages for journalism Maria Ressa following her historic Nobel Peace Prize win on Friday, Oct. 8. Maria Ressa (Photo from Ateneo) In a statement, Ateneo President Roberto C. Yap SJ, lauded Ressa, saying she has shown herself "to be a true...
Broadcast journalist and ACT-CIS Partylist Rep. Rowena Niña Taduran has joined opposition and administration lawmakers in congratulating journalist Maria Ressa for becoming the first Filipino to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Rep. Niña Taduran2 Taduran formalized her congratulatory message to Ressa by...
Senator Leila de Lima has joined the list of senators who have expressed their admiration for veteran journalist Maria Ressa for being the first Filipino recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her extraordinary courage and efforts in fighting for truth, democracy, freedom of expression and the...
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque simply blew off on Tuesday, Oct. 12 the statement of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) that sought to "inform" the Palace official that there is indeed press censorship in the Philippines under the Duterte administration. Presidential...
