I have been to the Philippines both for business and holiday, and I've always been surprised at the number of arab men who go there looking for women, either short term (rent) gf's or long term wives (women looking for a ticket out of their dreary existence). Not as in-your-face as in Thailand, where I found a street name Soi (street) Arab with exclusive arab clientele, LOL! I can tell you similar stories from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur, but I guess that's beyond the scope of this discussion.