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Opening Statement: Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Agreement of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

November 10, 2016

Opening Statement of Senator Loren Legarda
Committee on Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on the Agreement of the
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
10 November 2016, Recto Room
 
Good morning and welcome to today’s hearing of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the Articles of Agreement of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
 
Similar to the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, the AIIB is a multilateral lending institution first proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier […]

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‘Dayaw’ Features Traditional Homes

November 9, 2016

Senator Loren Legarda invites everyone to watch the second episode of Dayaw featuring traditional homes on November 10, 6:00 p.m. on the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) and ANC HD.

The second episode, “Kanlungan – The Sheltering Filipino Home”, looks into how Filipino homes have been shaped by the environment. It features the Ivatan home, the Ifugao Bale, the T’boli longhouse, the Bahay Kubo and the Bahay na Bato.

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Legarda Welcomes President Duterte’s Commitment to Ratify Paris Agreement

November 8, 2016

Senator Loren Legarda today welcomed President Rodrigo Duterte’s commitment to ratify the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and said that the climate journey has just begun.

“I thank the President for declaring that he will ratify the Paris Agreement. I thank the members of the Cabinet too for seeing the importance of upholding the treaty,” said Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committees on Climate Change and Finance, and the Global Champion for Resilience of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

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Speech: 5th Top Leaders Forum

November 8, 2016

Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
5th Top Leaders Forum
Science and Technology Towards Business Resilience
8 November 2016 | SMX Convention Center, Pasay City
I congratulate the organizers of the 5th Top Leaders Forum for getting our stakeholders together to inform and stimulate public conversation on the theme, “Science and technology towards building resilience.”
I have one message to everyone in this forum — We should not assume that science, research, and the tools they offer will just automatically find their way into the drawing […]

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