WHILE the Tinapayan Festival bakery has been around since 1982 (think of everything else that had happened in the 40 years since), the virus that had taken the world hostage in 2020 changed the game for its founder and General Manager Lucito Chavez.

YELLOW Tail or [yellow tail] wine — Australia’s famous original kangaroo label with a bracket on its brand name — continues to be the trend setter in the wine world. Aside from being Australia’s most exported wine brand for close to two decades now, Yellow Tail also retained its No. 1 position as World’s Most Powerful Wine Brand (Wine Intelligence Global Wine Brand Power Index 2021) for the fourth year in a row since 2018. Just last year, Yellow Tail celebrated its 20th year anniversary, and the brand shows no signs of slowing down.

THE NAME of Elle & Vire immediately conjures up an image of France. The dairy products brand, after all, is named after two French rivers —  the Elle and the Vire.

SEOUL — South Korean boy band BTS are to put on their first shows for their home fans since the coronavirus pandemic began, with three concerts in the capital, Seoul, next month, their agency said on Wednesday.

HONG KONG — Hong Kong (HK) police said on Tuesday they had arrested a 41-year-old man for suspected sedition and money laundering, whom local media identified as singer Tommy Yuen.

P.J. O’Rourke, the American journalist, political satirist, and best-selling author who rose to fame as editor-in-chief of the now-defunct humor magazine National Lampoon, has died at the age of 74.

LOS ANGELES — The family of a woman killed during filming of the Western Rust filed a wrongful death lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and others on Tuesday, claiming they disregarded several standard industry practices meant to keep movie sets safe.

CHOWKING has a new and improved Chowking Chunky Asado Siopao that’s filled with Hong Kong-style pork filling and is saucier.

Marriage registrations in the Philippines picked up in 2021 after dropping 44% the previous year, according to a February study by the iPrice Group, a Kuala Lumpur-based online shopping aggregator. Google searches for wedding-related keywords also increased in 2021 as compared to 2019. 

TWO years ago, a group of artists’ busy schedules slowed down. The time in lockdown gave them the opportunity to focus on helping their fellow artists fuel their creativity in their small community in Bacolod’s Art District.

LONDON — The platform which sold an NFT (non-fungible token) of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet for $2.9 million has halted most transactions because people were selling tokens of content that did not belong to them, its founder said, calling this a “fundamental problem” in the fast-growing digital assets market.

BRUSSELS — A team of artists in Belgium aims to teach men how it feels to be a woman subjected to harassment in the street, through an immersive project which plunges visitors into a darkened tunnel full of leering holograms.