On Distant Shore - 4

Contents + + + 1 - Federalism: Caution wouldn't hurt June 2, 2016 - p8 2 - Reject re-imposition of death penalty May 30, 2016 - p13 3 - House of turncoats May 27, 2016 - p18 4 - "Daang matuwid" comes to a dead end May 20, 2016 - p22 5 - Now, let the healing begin May 13, 2016 - p27 6 - A change not to be relished May 5, 2016 - p32 7 - Embracing Duterte, warts and all April 28, 2016 - p36 8 - Let us heed the call to vote April 21, 2016 - p41 9 - Why leave citizenship issue hanging? April 13, 2016 - p45 10 - Shameful indifference April 6, 2016 - p49 11 - Disempowering political dynasties March 30, 2016 - p54 12 - In praise of the Supreme Court March 24, 2016 - p59 13 - SC must not bow to Comelec threats March 17, 2016 - p65 14 - Why Duterte and Marcos are contenders March 9, 2016 - p69 15 - Questions for bets on sea row March 3, 2016 - p73 16 - Tensions rise in South China Sea February 25, 2016 - p78 17 - Surveys should alarm Aquino February 18, 2016 - p84 18 - Time to end cycle of migration February 11, 2016 - p89 19 - Is Poe Aquino's 'Manchurian candidate'? February 3, 2016 - p94 20 - Mamasapano: Let the truth prevail January 28, 2016 - p99 21 - Compassion not Aquino's strength January 21, 2016 - p104 22 - Why I Publish/Reprint Books Tatay Jobo Elizes - p110 ooooo 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.

• | Author: Val Abelgas, Tatay Jobo Elizes Pub.
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 110 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1976418364
• | ISBN-13: 9781976418365