Newly completed Phnom Penh Tower, the city's second highrise. Running a couple of weeks late on this post. Stray thoughts of Cambodi...

3 or 4 year old Cambodian boy, begging cup in hand, working the tourists on Sukhumvit, about 1:00AM I was in Bangkok last week. Stayed in t...

Over the last few of days I’ve spoken with friends who live and work in Vietnam , Thailand , Malaysia and China . A few happen to be in tow...

Purportedly an Angkorian era lintel from Baphuon temple that the author of the article ("Taking Home a Piece of Angkor Wat") was c...

Street meat for deep fry, Sukhumvit Soi 4, Bangkok, Thailand

From the front page of yesterday's The Nation (one of Thailand's main English language newspapers.) Interesting choice and place...

Bangkok. Out of the hospital with a clean bill and no required follow-ups. Not quite what I was but a helluva lot better than I could have b...

Nana Station, Sukhumvit Soi 7, Bangkok, Thailand

The Credo 1. I shall eschew the ways of the tourist and have an authentic Asian experience rather than a shallow, contrived, package holid...

Recently I have had the unfortunate opportunity to survey some of the local medical facilities. Personal health issues have sent me to the h...

For years Thailand has been touted as ‘The Land of Smiles.’ On arrival at the old Don Muang Airport in Bangkok tourists were greeted by a ...

Kampot City, Cambodia

Back in late 2009, tension between Thailand’s Red Shirt faction and the Thai government was building dramatically, as were tensions between ...

From its inception until about a month ago I considered twitter an all but useless frivolity, good only for bored housewives and self-obses...