Alex Vergara, Author at PeopleAsia

Sushi and samurai: Japan Travel Fair 2025 opens in Manila

With Japanese airlines and travel agencies offering budget-friendly travel options, now is the best time to explore The Land of the Rising Sun. The two-day Japan Travel Fair 2025 will help you tick this wonderful country off your bucket list. The Japan Travel Fair 2025 is eager to welcome Filipino…

National Arts Month promises to be a sumptuous feast for the soul and senses

The nationwide celebration, ongoing until the end of February, offers something for arts and culture enthusiasts in the field of visual arts, music, film, dance and literature, among others. Organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, National Arts Month has so far spawned numerous and sometimes simultaneous…

New TV show goes beyond 3 Rs in molding minds and instilling values among Filipinos

Hosted by veteran educator Jean Dumago-Descallar, Filipino at Heart with Teacher Jean seeks to broaden the definition of a well-rounded and educated Filipino, regardless of age, through insightful interviews and engaging segments that touch on the country’s teachers and their challenges as well as historical explorations, traditional crafts, culinary delights…

Bernie & Alice Liu: Fated for each other

Parents, indeed, know best! Although Bernie and Alice Liu’s union isn’t a product of an arranged marriage, the couple behind some of the country’s biggest fashion and lifestyle brands are forever grateful to their respective parents for their subtle efforts to make them fall in love. The practice of going…

Ton & Karen Concepcion: Stronger together

Going it alone in life may be faster and less complicated, but as Ton and Karen again reaffirm, doing things together as a committed couple allows you to go further, enabling you not only to complement and rely on each other’s strengths, but to also bring out the best in…

Joel & Joy Rustia: One cold summer evening in the Big Apple

Married for more than 30 years now, Joel and Joy Rustia have managed to build a dynamic partnership, raising three wonderful daughters and running several thriving businesses along the way. And their love story all started rather serendipitously. Joel Rustia and the former Joy Wambangco first met at South Street…

SINAG Award honors Pinky Tobiano-led association

The Association of Veterinary and Agri-Quality Assurance Laboratories of the Philippines, Inc., or AVACAL, has a direct hand in ensuring food security and quality assurance for the country's livestock. AVAQAL, under chemist Pinky Tobiano's leadership, recently received an agriculture award from SINAG (Samahang Industriya ng Agricultura). The association was lauded…

Beauty and pampering beyond the basics at Ensorcell Beauty

The newest beauty destination in Greenhills is also the first and so far only beauty establishment in the Philippines to carry Highs Canada coffee spa products, including Highs spa chairs with its built-in comfort recliners, foot-and-hand spa basins and built-in water heating. How one looks, whether we care to admit…

Shiela Valderrama essays highs and lows of bipolar sufferers in new musical

The seasoned singer-actress stars in a “role of a lifetime” as Diana Goodman in the critically acclaimed Broadway musical Next to Normal, a Sandbox Collective production, opening on February 2 at Ayala Circuit’s Powermac Center Blackbox Theater. By Alex Y. Vergara Shiela Valderrama opens the new year on a high…

The terno as an art form inspired by another art form

For its fourth edition, TernoCon 2025 asked this year’s finalists to draw inspirations from the artworks of some of the best and most celebrated Filipino artists in fashioning their respective three-piece collections. Capiz's Peach Garde, who channelled National Artist Leandro Locsin's iconic buildings, wins top prize. By Alex Y. Vergara…