Foreign briefing: Pingyao goes modern

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Cambodia after the killing fields

A muddy, weed-choked field in the hills of northern Cambodia is the last resting place of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, chief instigator of...

Journeys Within: a tour company in Cambodia, a helping hand in Cambodian communities

Fifty years of civil war have left Cambodia a desperately poor and damaged nation with about a third of its 15 million people below the...

Stay cool in Ho Chi Minh City's cafe oases

My husband, Robin, son Kai and I lived in Vietnam for a little more than two years. At first we found all the sounds of Ho Chi Minh City...

Tokyo Disney resort fully reopening theme parks after quake

Photos: Concept art of Shanghai Disneyland theme park

The $4.4 billion Shanghai Disney resort is expected to open in late 2015 or early 2016 with a Magic Kingdom-style theme park, two hotels and...

U.S. State Department issues travel alert for Japan earthquake

Japan earthquake travel update: Airlines divert flights, waive change fees

Myanmar's dazzling shrines to Buddha

As I sat on a high ledge of the 734-year-old Mingalarzedi Temple, looking out over the hundreds of ancient temples around Bagan, I...

Need an Asian language interpreter, teacher or city navigator? There's an app for that

If language limitations have kept Asia off your destination list, smart-phone applications can help you overcome those barriers. Before...

Asia travel: Five trends to watch

Geopolitics. Rhinoplasty. Who knew those would be among the hottest topics in Asia for 2011? It was news to me, and I've been going back and...

Cruising Asia's modern miracles and ancient wonders aboard the Ocean Princess

On a windy, showery February evening midway through our 16-night cruise from Laem Chabang, Thailand, to Shanghai, my wife,...

Malaysian Tioman Island shirks most development, thrives on natural beauty

Even when you tell people where Tioman Island is — that it's a patch of jungle off the east coast of peninsular Malaysia — you'...

Nosing into the emerging national parks of China's Yunnan province

One spring morning last year, I stuffed my rucksack with things I bring on camping trips in the U.S.: fleece, books 'n' socks, toothbrush,...

Sober travel options

The life of a road warrior is certainly no picnic, but for Brian H., it proved his undoing. For years, as a pharmaceutical salesman...

In Cambodia, once-untouchable treasures await

Two decades ago, the great ruined temple complex at Angkor in central Cambodia was an uncrowded dream destination. But as the country...

Reunification Express offers slow ride between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

The voice was guttural and raspy, the language deep and tonal.

Bali, soul of replenishment

On a steamy, drizzly morning, my friend Alejandra Cisneros leads us on a narrow dirt path through the flooded rice fields.

Bargain hunting at Japan's 100-yen stores

Reporting from Tokyo

Shanghai unveils its global side at 2010 Expo

Shanghai likes to advertise its 2010 Expo as the largest single event in human history. This, at first, might sound abstract. But as soon as...