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  1. I could have been in Venice. Bangkok is a city of canals and waterways.

    Thailand MaryLou Driedger
  2. Canal life has long been a part of Thai culture. The Europeans used to call Bangkok "Venice of th...

    Thailand Robert Tompkins
  3. Thais call Bangkok Krung Thep, City of Angels"; the name dates from 1782, after the original capi...

    Thailand Robert Tompkins
  4. Sunda Kelapa now, as in pre-colonial days, is a truly Indonesian port. A visit to its ancient doc...

    Indonesia Tom Cockrem
  5. Which wine goes with Thai food? Thai wine of course. "No other wines match Thai food. Thai wines...

    Thailand AFP/Nareerat Wiriyapong
  6. The small wooden boat bobs around precariously as the three of us clamour aboard. The boat pilot ...

    Thailand Samantha Brown
  7. Driving through Bangkok's mind-boggling traffic with its pollution and noise, one would not dream...

    Thailand Habeeb Salloum
  8. You have to look a little harder to get past all the Las Vegas glitz and glitter that seems to be...

    China MaryLou Driedger
  9. The Mekong. You could spend a lifetime exploring it. One of the world's great rivers, the source ...

    Vietnam / Mekong River Lou Dematteis / Sarah Tilton
  10. Bangkok. Once it was a dreamy, Asian city laced with tree-lined canals. Today, it's a modern metr...

    Thailand Robert Strauss
  11. Is there anywhere on planet Earth that so teems with life and industry as the Mekong Delta? Anywh...

    Vietnam Graham Simmons
  12. KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13, 2003 - An obsession with ornamental fish in Asia has unleashed a killer hyb...

    Malaysia AFP/Hazlin Hassan
  13. Many readers and travelers may have already seen a performance or heard about it. We have chosen ...

    Vietnam Lisa Spivey
  14. For decades Ornta made his living as his father and grandfather had before him -- by catching gho...

    Thailand AFP/Thanaporn Promyamyai
  15. I thought I'd been everywhere, covered all the city's major attractions-the Ben Thanh Market (and...

    Vietnam Tom Cockrem
  16. The Japanese cat has captured my attention. I've run across them here and there but they seem qui...

    Japan Stefan Chiarantano
  17. Before the advent of the railroad 100 years ago, Safranbolu -- a city of fountains, caravanserais...

    Turkey AFP/Jerome Bastion
  18. In Shanghai, the future is displacing the past so fast that there is hardly any present...

    China Graham Simmons
  19. A Philippine proverb says that if anyone wastes rice or throws it away, his hand will become defo...

    Philippines Ronald de Jong
  20. Start I've long been fascinated with reflections, both my own (very narcissistic, I admit) and th...

    China Joshua Samuel Brown

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