June 12, 2018
MENSAHE NI SENADOR LOREN LEGARDA
Ika-120 Anibersaryo ng Araw ng Kalayaan
Dambana ng Pinaglabanan, San Juan City
“Kalayaan 2018: Pagbabagong Ipinaglaban, Alay sa Masaganang Kinabukasan”
Isang siglo at dalawampu’t taon na ang nakakaraan mula ng una nating nakamit ang ating kalayaan mula sa mga dayuhang nanakop sa ating bayan. Noon, sa loob din ng mahigit na tatlong siglo, ipinaglaban natin ang kalayaan, upang magkaroon ng kasarinlan at ng sariling pamahalaan.
Naging matagumpay ang pakikipaglaban ng ating mga ninuno, kabilang man sa […]
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June 8, 2018
Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU)
40th Commencement Exercises
June 8, 2018 | Batac City, Ilocos Norte
My sincerest congratulations to this year’s graduates of Mariano Marcos State University!
You have all worked so hard to reach this level of academic excellence, and it is only fitting that we recognize and celebrate the passion and determination you have exhibited throughout the years.
As graduates from different programs and disciplines, the respective experiences you have had in college might have also been distinct from each […]
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June 4, 2018
Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
4th Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium
Coral Reefs of the Asia-Pacific: Working Together Amidst Contemporary Challenges
June 04, 2018 | Marco Polo Plaza Cebu
There is no question that marine biological diversity is enormously important for the Philippines and the rest of the world. Our country, being an archipelago located within the coral triangle, is blessed with a very rich biodiversity. We have one of the world’s richest marine ecosystems, characterized by extensive […]
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May 25, 2018
Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
Hibla ng Lahing Filipino Travelling Exhibition
24 May 2018 | Madrid, Spain
Traditional textiles are ties that bind. It links the past to the present and brings together cultures, which, no matter how diverse, has a commonality.
It is in this premise that the Hibla ng Lahing Filipino textile gallery was born in 2012 in two small rooms of the National Museum of the Philippines.
Today, I am filled with pride because from the simple rooms that first […]
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May 24, 2018
SPEECH OF SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA
Vernissage of the Philippine Pavilion
International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale
24 May 2018 | Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, the directors of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, present Freespace as the theme for the central exhibition and have urged countries to bring their own Freespace in Venice through the national pavilions.
Today, we are gathered in what Dr. Edson Cabalfin views as the Philippines’ Freespace or “Pookginhawa.”
We are […]
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