When the going gets rough, friends smoothen out life’s rough edges. This Small Laude knows for sure. By JOANNE RAE M. RAMIREZ Small, who has 2.3 million followers on YouTube and about a million on Instagram, says “blind loyalty” is what she values most in a friendship. “It’s loyalty that…

From pandemic-related donations, which include around 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, to $600 million in military assistance since 2016, all the way down to $20.2 million in aid for victims of typhoon Odette, among other things — Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel Romualdez summed up why the…

So what do you do when you're a lifestyle guru and award-winning TV show host visiting the Philippines? A lot of things, apparently, as seen in Martha Stewart's recent trip, where she immersed herself in Filipino culture. From meeting with mayors to planting rice and baking, and even being the special guest of…

By BABE ROMUALDEZ From time to time, Stargate Media Corp. — the publishing arm of PeopleAsia magazine — comes out with special editions and commemorative issues such as Papal Power: Pope Francis in the Philippines, which chronicled the visit of the pontiff to the Philippines in January last year. The said special edition —…

May 3 is world press freedom day. Across the planet, journalists, news writers, reporters, photographers, news anchors and other members of the press day in and day out reveal hard truths about the most pressing issues, oftentimes putting themselves in danger just to get to the truest of truths the world needs…