LIFESTYLE: TRAVEL

On average, Asian Americans take longer trips (4.4 nights) when compared to the average domestic traveler. (Source: The Minority Traveler, 2000)

We’ll have the hottest Asian destinations, what to do in some of the world’s most beautiful Asian cities and what some readers think of the “latest destinations”. Also enjoy travel stories from our readers.

JUL 2008

Angela In Japan: Please Show Your Passport

Angela Jung has written a few articles on her travels and adventures....Here she write about a recent trip to Japan where things didn't go as smoothly as planned.

APR 2008

Overseas Taiwanese Return home to Vote

On Saturday, March 22, over 250,000 overseas Taiwanese returned to Taiwan to choose their next president. Nationalist (KMT) candidate Ma Ying-jeou, a Harvard-educated lawyer and former mayor of Taipei, defeated Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Frank Chang-ting Hsieh by approximately 17 percent.

NOV 2007

Urban Asian American visits the Heartland

Last week I attended a media tour of Wisconsin as a representative of Asiance Magazine. As an Urbanite, the first thought in my mind was “Whoa! I’ve never milked a cow before!” Just kidding. But seriously, in NYC they say everything is “about making that cheddar”. Not to be cheesy, but in Wisconsin it’s true-

MAR 2007

Chinese Reality

Those were the images that flashed across the TV as I ate lunch inside my cousins’ apartment. Outside, Beijing’s weather reflected the somber realities of shattered lives making news.

AUG 2006

The Not-So-Quicker-Picker-Uppers

Lijiang, a booming southwestern Chinese town, is tucked away high in the mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Like many cities in China, it is a beacon of paradox: an ancient town yet a booming metropolis, a cultural oasis yet a tiresome tourist trap, and a paragon of beauty yet surprisingly trashy - literally.