ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Former Senate president Frank Drilon on Monday joined calls on former Speaker Jose de Venecia to tell the people what he knows about the alleged overpricing of the $503-million Northrail Project.
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
DAGUPAN CITY, July 13 (PNA) -- Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. (Fourth District, Pangasinan) proposed modification of the Expanded Value-Added Tax (E-VAT) law to help ease price surges in food and fuel nationwide.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) might include Juamil “Mameng” Biyaw in the charges of kidnapping for ransom of an ABS-CBN news team and a Mindanao professor after both broadcast journalist Ces Drilon and Prof. Octavio Dinampo maintained that the suspected military agent was involved in the crime.(7/9/2008 1:44:46 AM)Former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. on Tuesday...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
... involved in the NBN-ZTE project were first revealed in media last year by Filipino businessman Jose "Joey" de Venecia III, namesake and son of former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.The erstwhile speaker himself figured prominently in a much earlier controversy involving the Chinese-funded North Rail project for Luzon.De Venecia III claimed the alleged anomalies in...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
... faces the pressure of proving that he is a better Speaker than his predecessor Pangasinan Rep. Jose De Venecia Jr. The House has passed on third reading a total of 253 bills. By comparison, the First Regular Session of the 13th the House passed only five bills on third reading. During the entire 13th Congress, only 38 bills were passed on third reading. Nograles, who assumed only...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Former House speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. remains focused and his and his much-anticipated appearance at the Senate as witness to the alleged bribery in the government's botched broadband network deal will push through as promised, his son and namesake said Monday.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Former Social Welfare Secretary Corazon "Dinky" Soliman denied paying for an ad in the Philippine Daily Inquirer linking her to a group that is allegedly planning for former Speaker Jose de Venecia's testimony in the Senate ZTE-NBN probe.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
"He's there. He was with them all the time. So he knows a lot." This was the statement of Sister May John Mananzan of the Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines (AMRSP) as she urged former House speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. to testify before the Senate on what knows about President Arroyo's meeting with ZTE Corp. officials in Shenzhen, China in 2006.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
The clandestine meeting between President Arroyo and officials of ZTE Corp. in Shenzhen, China on November 2, 2006 was the "turning point" that saw the Chinese company clinch the $329-million broadband contract, former House Speaker Jose de Venecia said Monday.
