Only a handful of black models sashayed down the catwalk at this week’s Rio fashion show, sparking fresh calls for quotas to ensure greater diversity in a country where more than half of the population is of African ancestry.
July 1898. It was a beautiful warm evening in Yokohama, Japan. Two shadowy figures were slowly and silently going down the steep hill, careful not to awaken the samurai guards.
The first time I ever went to Boracay was just after my senior year in high school. My twin sister, an older sister plus her friend, and I filled a giant duffel bag with canned goods and flew to the island, planning to bunk in with our aunt, who was staying at a little cottage called Gunding Torres for P300 a night. The year was 1999, and couples were still running around the beach naked.
New year, new season, new talent… and some old familiar screeching from the judging panel. “So You Think You Can Dance,” the Emmy-winning dance show with the longest name ever to fill up primetime slots, is back on AXN Asia with its eighth installment.
“My Fun Philippines: I went up Mount Pinatubo in ’08 and I haven’t gotten it out of my mind since. The scenic 4×4 ride to the base of the mountain, the arduous but fun three hour trek that turned to five hours, drinking in the tranquil but deadly beauty of the volcano’s crater and then getting inebriated with the awesome company I climbed with are things I hope to do again, soon!”—Mark Christian Parlade, public relations director, Stratworks
It’s a happy coincidence that along with the Department of Tourism’s social media-heavy tourism campaign, Naia rolls back its terminal fee from P750 to 550, as its five-year initiative requiring the additional P200 finally ends in February.
The launch of the Department of Tourism’s new “It’s More Fun In The Philippines” campaign has led to debates between people who either love or hate it.
There is no doubt how “It’s More Fun in the Philippines”—the new campaign of the Philippine Department of Tourism—got everyone’s attention when it was unveiled last week. Apart from an attractively colorful banig-inspired logo featuring the Philippine map, the use of different colors for the copy was also a great decision. However, the slogan itself—“It’s More Fun in the Philippines”—instantly attracted a lot of negative comments, including how it was just copied from Switzerland’s “It’s More Fun in Switzerland” in 1951.
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