On Distant Shore

Contents 1 - Time to go nuclear - September 4, 2016 2 - Alvarez gets ball rolling for Con-Com with draft EO - September 1, 2016 3 - The saga of Jun Lozada continues - Sept. 1, 2016 4 - Looking after our own - August 24, 2016 5 - Sterner warning for gun smugglers? - Aug. 21, 2016 6 - Regaining one's cultural identity - August 16, 2016 7 - Filipinos should reject Trump - August 13, 2016 8 - 'Slippery slope toward tyranny' - August 10, 2016 9 - Cha-cha: Just like the dance - August 7, 2016 10 - Road rage: Something has to be done - Aug. 2, 2016 11 - The need for a strong opposition - July 31, 2016 12 - Let's hope change is for real this time - July 26, 2016 13 - Climate change: No excuse for inaction - July 24, 2016 14 - Change much needed in bureaucracy - July 22, 2016 15 - Sea row: Conflict or cooperation? -July 19, 2016 16 - All people's lives matter - July 13, 2016 17 - Hopefully, relief from hunger - July 13, 2016 18 - Honoring the sanctity of contracts - July 9, 2016 19 - A different, better Duterte - July 3, 2016 20 - States seize gun control initiative - July 3, 2016 21 - Like drug dealers, Abus should be eliminated - June 26, 2016 22 - Agriculture: Back to the basics - June 26, 2016 23 - Sea row: Where does Duterte really stand? - June 12, 2016 24 - Will somebody tell him campaign is over? - June 4, 2016 + + + + 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. (more inside)

• | Author: Val Abelgas, Tatay Jobo Elizes Pub.
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Sep 14, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 112 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1976376203
• | ISBN-13: 9781976376207