On Distant Shore - 9781976273667

Contents About the author - p3 1 - An action guided by bigotry and injustice February 2, 2017 - p8 2 - Let the journalists do their job January 24, 3017 - p12 3 - The poor had been had again January 10, 2017 - p16 4 - A year of hope and uncertainty January 3, 2017 - p21 5 - A happy and hopeful people January 1, 2017 - p26 6 - A distant Christmas December 23, 2016 - p31 7 - Impunity and the rule of law December 12, 2016 - p34 8 - Why punish poor for govt's inefficiency? December 5, 2016 - p39 9 - Bastusang Pambansa November 30, 2016 - p44 10 - Massacre: 58 dead, 7 years, 0 justice November 25, 2016 - p49 11 - Gov't must probe brazen killing November 11, 2016 - p53 12 - Agriculture is one bright spot November 8, 2016 - p57 13 - From one master to another? October 25, 2016 - p61 14 - Cuddling up to China: Remember Scarborough October 15, 2016 - p66 15 - Aquino, Abad must answer for DAP acts October 9, 2016 - p70 16 - Same-sex marriages in PH? October 6, 2016 - p74 17 - Playing both sides won't do it October 1, 2016 - p78 18 - Never again: Just another slogan? September 25, 2016 - p83 19 - DepEd should focus on science September 25, 2016 - p89 20 - Even in foreign policy, people matter September 16, 2016 - p94 21 - Did he really say that? September 13, 2016 - p99 22 - PH can't stay in middle for long September 9, 2016 - p104 23 - No need for emergency declaration September 7, 2016 - p108 24 - Why I Publish/Reprint Books Tatay Jobo Elizes - p113 + + + + + + VAL G. ABELGAS Publisher-Editor, Philippine Post Editor, www.thepinoyweekly.com Columnist, On Distant Shore valabelgas@aol.com Val G. Abelgas, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles-based Philippine Post, has been a professional journalist for almost 45 years, 20 of them in Manila and 25 years in Los Angeles. Val started as a sportswriter in the now defunct Philippine Daily Express in 1972 while still in his junior year in journalism at the University of the Philippines' Institute of Mass Communications. He rose to become city editor of then the country's biggest daily newspaper at a very young age of 24. He was the last managing editor of the Daily Express, which was closed down by the Cory Aquino administration in 1987. The next day, he moved to the Manila Standard as its first managing editor. After stints as editorial consultant of the Philippine Star Group and later managing editor of the Philippine Times Journal, he and his family immigrated in 1991 to the United States, where he later obtained his green card as an alien of extraordinary ability in the field of journalism. In his first year in the US, he was editor of the Los Angeles Monitor and the next year became the first editor-in-chief of Balita. He moved to the Philippine Times in 1993, during which time he won the Newspaper of the Year and Columnist of the Year awards of the Philippine Press Club of America for two straight years in 1993 and 1994. In November 1993, he organized the first-ever nationwide convention of Filipino-American editors in Los Angeles with President Fidel V. Ramos as guest speaker. In 1995, he left the Philippine Times to join his wife Marisse in editing the Philippine Post and later became editor of Ang Peryodiko, the Pinoy Weekly and the Philippine Tribune. He published and edited two magazines with his wife, the Philippine Post Magazine and the Hiyas Magazine. (more inside)

• | Author: Val Abelgas, Tatay Jobo Elizes Pub.
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Sep 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 114 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1976273668
• | ISBN-13: 9781976273667