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As a father and a retired politician, we are gratified that our son, Pangasinan fourth district congressman Christopher de Venecia, has taken up causes that are closest to his heart – arts, culture, and the creative industries.
He recently launched in our district an arts festival, c
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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who served as his country’s president from 2001 to 2008, recently died in Dubai where he had been living in self-imposed exile since 2016.
He was the first Pakistani head of state to visit the Philippines.
Musharraf, an Armed Forces chief,
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In February 2011, demonstrations broke out in the Libyan City of Benghazi, which eventually led to the tragic death of Muammar Gaddafi in October the same year at his hometown of Sirte, located between the capital Tripoli and Benghazi.
This columnist is no stranger in Libya as we wou
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We are saddened by the continuing economic crisis in Lebanon, which the World Bank has earlier described as “the most devastating multi-pronged crisis in its modern history.”
The ongoing political deadlock in parliament has the country without a president since Oct. 30 last year, whi
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In 2008, our co-chairman and then secretary general in the International Conference of Asian Political Parties, Chung Eui-yong of South Korea, who later served as his country’s National Security Adviser and then Foreign Minister, travelled to Buenos Aires, to explore ways and means of