Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Third Regular Session 
House Bill No. _________ 
Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE JOEY SARTE SALCEDA 
AN ACT 
GRANTING PHILIPPINE CITIZENSHIP TO KUO-CHIH SU 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
A Taiwanese national who have been residing in the Philippines for decades now who are 
deemed to be highly qualified as development investors because their hearts are inclined towards 
this country.  
Mr. KUO-CHIH SU, was born in Taiwan, or the Republic of China. Despite the fact that they 
have been accustomed to a life of ease in Taiwan, they chose to come to the Philippines in 1994. 
Mr. Kuo-Chih Su has manifested their intense desire to become Filipino citizens and have learned 
to embrace and practice Filipino culture. In fact, all of their children studied and finished their 
education in the Philippines. 
He migrated to the Philippines, with their business acumen, their personal wealth, and their 
dignity. In 1994, they put up their first business establishment in the Philippines: the New 
Formosa Shabu-Shabu Restaurant in Mabini Street, Malate, Manila, with an initial capital 
investment of Two Million Pesos.  
At the height of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, the brothers, undeterred by the risk of sinking, 
invested another Twenty-Five Million Pesos worth of a new restaurant in Quezon City. 
While the rest of the Southeast Asian countries were still experiencing the drawbacks of the crisis 
and the Philippines was just surviving a political turmoil, the brothers continued to venture into 
economic investments in the country worth millions and billions of pesos, such as the Sung Yueh 
Construction in 2003; the MSK Group in 2005-2010; and the Weishin Subic Bay Corporation in 
2007. The investments focused on infrastructure projects that created buildings and houses for the 
Filipino people.  In the years that followed the brothers created four more companies that caused 
other forein entities to invest in the country, also in billions of pesos   thereby creating more jobs 
and uplifting the lives of the people. 
It would be unfair, however, to equate the efforts of the development investors as merely for 
profit, because the brothers proved to be great philanthropists themselves when they created the 
Ermita-Malate Fire and Rescue Volunteer Association with Three Million Pesos donation. 
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It must be noted that the associate development investors are prime advocates of the country’s 
green recovery program aimed at restoring our forest cover, protecting our endemic species, and 
ensuring environmental protection and climate change adaptation. This was proven by their 
support during the: a) 2017 LMP National Roll-Out of the Training Workshop on the 
Formulation of Local Climate Change Action Plan (LCCAP) in the Philippines; b) Federalism 
Malasakit at Pagbabago (under the League of Municipalities of the Philippines, Office of the 2nd 
District of Albay, Local Climate Change Adaptation for Development (LCCAD) in collaboration 
with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Climate Change Commission 
(CCC), Philippine Information Agency (PIA), and the University of the Philippines Resilience 
Institute (UPRI), and the City Government of Legazpi. Their advocacy lies in the ability of the 
national and local governments to sustainably manage our natural resources and better 
environmental governance with support from the private sector. The initiative is to empower our 
communities to come together and cooperate.  
Amidst the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, and while other foreign investors are 
abandoning the Philippines, the loyal brothers, through their companies continued and increased 
their efforts in assisting the communities where they operate. Such efforts include: a) repair, 
beautification, installation of solar lights in the abandoned Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation 
(APEC) Villas that generated jobs for residents of Subic and other provinces; b) donated laptops 
to interns of the Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) for their online 
classes; c) through the MSK Group Work Inc. donated numerous face masks to the City of 
Olongapo and other LGUs; d) donated 150 electric fans to the quarantine and isolation facilities 
of the PNP front liners who were victims of COVID -19; e) donated One hundred Fifty thousand 
Pesos to the New Cabalan National High School; f) constructed a covered court and school fences 
in Pastolan Elementary School; and  g) donated 19 vehicles (SUVs/trucks) for maintenance of 
peace, security and safety of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone and neighbors. 
Mr. Kuo-Chih Su clearly enjoys character traits of a true Filipino: loving, generous, respectful, 
ethical, loyal, optimistic, persevering and eager to help communities, among others. 
Having invested billions of pesos to this country, providing livelihood and jobs to our fellow 
Filipinos and having shown dedication, loyalty, and love to our beloved country and its people, 
the associate brothers would be of great addition to the Philippines and the Filipino community. It 
is high time for the Philippines to show how much we value KUO-CHIH SU’s, contributions by 
granting unto them Filipino citizenships by virtue of this Legislative Naturalization. 
In view of the foregoing, the approval of this measure is urgently sought. 
JOEY SARTE SALCEDA 


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Third Regular Session 
House Bill No. _________ 
Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE JOEY SARTE SALCEDA 
AN ACT 
GRANTING PHILIPPINE CITIZENSHIP TO KUO-CHIH SU 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. Mr. Kuo-Chih Su is hereby granted Philippine citizenship with all the 
rights, privileges and prerogatives, as well as the duties and obligations appurtenant thereto 
under the Constitution and the laws of the Republic of the Philippines. 
SEC. 2. After the taking by Mr. Kuo-Chih Su of his Oath of Allegiance before an 
officer duly authorized for this purpose, and the registration of the same with the Bureau of 
Immigration, Mr. Kuo-Chih Su shall enter upon the full enjoyment of his Philippine 
citizenship. 
SEC. 3. Upon registration of the Oath of Allegiance, the Bureau of Immigration shall 
forthwith issue Mr. Kuo-Chih Su a Certificate of Naturalization. 
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately upon publication in at least two (2) 
newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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