News - Asia

Touch in the Philippines continues to weather the COVID-19 storm, but even the pandemic has failed to stymie the plans of Touch Association Pilipinas to make an impact at the next World Cup.

With the pandemic under control in Hong Kong, the local Touch community is now eyeing off expanding the game locally and taking on the region's best in the 2021 Asian Cup.

The Japanese call their country Nihon, which translates as the land where the sun originates, or the land of the rising sun. Something else is rising in East Asia, and that is Japan Touch, one of the success stories of the World Cup in Malaysia in 2019.

Lush tropical gardens, a gentle humid breeze, glittering modern skyscrapers, the fragrant smell of chilli crab, the sound of the referee’s whistle on a Touch field! This is Singapore.

We talk to Bianca Arco about the upcoming Asian Club Championships, the growth of the sport in the Philippines, and the importance of commercial partnerships.