July 2021 - PeopleAsia

Wellness footwear brand to relaunch and introduce more styles

You can start walking in style while shedding off some unwanted calories again. What has become the rage in casual footwear for women (and later among men) in the late ’90s and early aughts will soon have a new local distributor, introducing more styles to keep up with current trends…

Forward, always forward for this erstwhile reluctant artist

In less than a decade since actively taking up the brush, Kenneth John Montegrande has already staged 10 solo exhibits. Now, pandemic and all, he’s staging his 11th at the Podium. And to think he’s self-taught and only started painting regularly after stints in media, PR and the government. Talent…

Country’s leading real estate developer rolls out vaccination program

No one is safe until everyone is safe. We are only as strong as our weakest link. The race to stop the spread of Covid-19 and the further mutation of the virus, which causes it, through vaccination continues, and SM Development Corporation (SMDC) is stopping at nothing to protect its…

Protected: MAGS continues to empower women through fashion after 19 years

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Crispy lechon de leche and other culinary delights

Happy days are here again, as Conrad Manila’s Brasserie on 3 sets its tables and welcomes back patrons with a festival of culinary delights curated by Executive Chef Daniel Patterson. The special selection of all-time favorites in “live” food stations assures guests that they can dine with confidence and indulge…

Tomorrow X Together signs up with Smart as its newest brand ambassadors

And the Korean invasion continues! Following the highly successful launch of its partnership with BTS, Smart Communications Inc. has confirmed the appointment of Tomorrow X Together (TXT) as its newest international ambassadors. Smart is teaming up with the five-member Korean boyband to introduce Build Your Own Giga, Smart Prepaid's latest…

Golden memories: Hidilyn shines as one of PeopleAsia’s People of the Year 2019 awardees

Hidilyn Diaz, holding her People of the Year 2019 trophy, savors the moment. "I am proud to show to the world what I have been because I work so hard to achieve this with the help of my team towards Tokyo 2020," said Hidilyn Diaz in an Instagram Post way…

Subdued SONA fashion in the time of COVID

Attendance was down compared to past SONAs, as not a few guests opted to watch the president’s speech, his final address to the Filipino people, on Zoom. Still, a number of ladies dared to brave the threat of a more contagious Delta variant by trooping physically in style to the…

Hidilyn Diaz bags Philippines’ first gold at Tokyo Olympics

Her-story. Hidilyn Diaz brings home an Olympic Gold, the first ever in Philippine history. Diaz made history and won the country's first Olympic gold by topping the women's 55kg weightlifting division Monday at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan. After cinching silver in the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first Filipino…

Duterte’s SONA 2021 is ‘no swan song’

BY JOSE PAOLO S. DELA CRUZ "Today is my last State of the Nation Address, but this is by no means my swan song. I will never cease to implore Congress to pass vital and critical legislation." -- President Rodrigo Duterte Duterte in Batasan for his last SONA with Senate…