EVEN as New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looked fetching in her ivory-colored Barong Tagalog and long black skirt on Sunday night’s Asean gala dinner, her take on wearing the modernized national costume veered the other way.

At least, this is the general impression gathered and delivered by New Zealand website newshub.co.nz, which headlined a story from the two-day summit with “Jacinda Ardern shows off East Asia Summit 'silly' shirt.”

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