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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 (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 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 In the last days of 2018 and in the New Year, we witnessed in media Japan’s well-loved Emperor Akihito, a friend of the Filipino people, deliver his final New Year’s address to the Japanese people before his scheduled abdication in a...