Michael's Asia Travel Blog

While Singapore may still have harsh laws against male homosexual activity on its books, the attitude of government in the city-state is changing. Singapore is relaxing its opposiiton to an ... Read More

Stifling: that's what it was like in Dubai on July 29 of last year. At 5am it was 93F degrees. By noon it was 104 degrees. And as the day ... Read More

On the south bank of the Yellow River, some 16 miles northwest of Zhengzhou in Henan Province is the Yellow River Scenic Area. And if you're passing through Henan, especially ... Read More

With Hindu priests leading the mourners, thousands of people turned out Saturday for the cremation of 96-year-old Tjokorda Istri Niyang Muter in Ubud, on the island of Bali in Indonesia, ... Read More

This year's monsoon season has dumped more water on Asia than perhaps any since the late 1980's. The death toll in South Asia has climb past 700, according to the ... Read More

Residents of Istanbul had a comfortable day on July 22 last year. The morning started off at a fresh 71F degrees and temperatures never climbed above the mid-80's. The high ... Read More

Sabah, on the north tip of Borneo, is hot and humid. So where do you go after a hard day's tromping through virgin rain forest and trying not to catch ... Read More

The Times of Oman is reporting that a court in Muscat, Oman has handed down the death sentence for an American woman convicted there of killing her husband. The woman, ... Read More

Ahhh, what a life! The sun. The sand. The night life. It was a comfortable 75F degrees with a few scattered clouds in Tel Aviv on July 15 last year ... Read More

The city of Kathmandu, in the words of the city's web site, is "an open air museum of famous sites, ancient temples and shrines, golden pagodas and are inspiring deities..." ... Read More

At the Cabbages and Condoms Restaurant in Bangkok guests are greeted by waiters who use condoms as hats. Has someone gone bonkers? Or is Bangkok really worse than Vegas? Neither: ... Read More

The largest AIDS conference in history starts Sunday in Bangkok, Thailand. The Agence France Press is reporting that as many as 20,000 people are expected to attend the conference. Among ... Read More

Talk about a scorcher! It was 90 degrees in Kuwait City on July 8 last year at six in the morning. And by mid-afternoon temperatures had climbed to 117 degrees. ... Read More

You are closer to either Moscow or New Delhi than to Beijing. And many of the people look like they could be Turkish. But you're in China. Places in Western ... Read More

The Associated Press is reporting that 53 people have been killed in Taiwan and the Philippines by tropical storm Mindulle. Most of the deaths occurred in the Philippines, where the ... Read More

An afternoon shower moistened Guangzhou on the first day of July last year. Temperatures never fell below 80F degrees and by mid-morning had reached 90F. There was a steady breeze ... Read More