Filipina

Hail to the Queens

For as long as anyone can remember, Filipinos have had a time-tested love affair with beauty pageants. Perhaps it's seeing beautiful faces that excites them the most, or maybe it's the glamorous dresses put on display and the stories of each potential queen that catch their attention. Or, maybe, it's…

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Manila, Philippines: The New Center of the Universe

It’s official — next year, the Philippines will be the center of the universe. The queen of all pageants, Miss Universe, will be held right here in the Philippines, this time with 26-year-old Maxine Medina representing the country in the pageant's 65th edition. Slated on January 30, 2017, it has…

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Rhian Ramos: This Girl Has Turned Into a Woman

Rhian Ramos takes the lead in GMA’s TV adaptation of 1992 hit Sinungaling Mong Puso, where she breathes life into her character Clara, a mistreated wife who looks for love beyond her husband’s straying eyes and hands and finds it – in a man ten years her junior. It could seem…

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Hannah Kong: Fairy Godmother to Fashion

Take a look at these gowns. Really zone in and focus on every bead, every precious stone and every evenly spaced stitch as if each dress were a work of art. The longer you look, the more the dresses look like the creations of a fairy godmother — dresses a…

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Solenn Heussaff: Girl (Un)Interrupted

Solenn (or Sos) strikes us as someone who despises being labeled and boxed in (not that she’d care, though). "In the beginning, I was like, ‘Ew!’” she exclaims, face wrinkled in feigned disgust. “Why am I an ‘It Girl? “First of all, I don’t even like the term,” Solenn Marie…

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Heroes Among Us: 9 Actors and Actresses That Have Played Superhero Roles

Another superhero blockbuster in the form of X-Men: Apocalypse begins screening in Manila today. There must be something about superheroes Filipinos can't get enough of. Is it the awesome latex outfits, the superhuman strengths and abilities, or is it the fantasy that maybe, just maybe, superheroes really do walk amongst us in…

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Zsa Zsa Padilla: The Art of Living & Loving

A chapter of the romantic saga Zsa Zsa is writing for herself may have to come to a close this week, but that only means she's another step closer to that fairytale ending. But there is something that will never change about Zsa Zsa, single or otherwise; she will always be a…

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The ABCs with PeopleAsia Pt. 2

Pencils down, hands up and pass your papers forward! Here's the second half of your ABC lessons with PeopleAsia. Need to backtrack and review? Check out The ABCs with PeopleAsia Pt. 1 here. F - Pope Francis After a few millennia of both shining and appalling moments, one would think one…

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Toni Gonzaga: Toni Award

She's expecting, and now she's lovelier than ever. Once a starlet that bloomed into a primetime princess and now a pretty mom-to-be, Toni Gonzaga has all the right values, motivations and philosophies needed to raise a child in this world. She is, indeed, intelligent, grounded and beautiful from head to…

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