Countries such as Thailand, India, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines are posting big numbers in terms of medical tourism, according to a story written by Peerapan Tungsuwan in the January 14, 2013 issue of the Bangkok Post. Worldwide, medical tourism accounts for an estimated $100 billion in revenue annually. While Asia’s share […]
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American woman gets financially fleeced by male Asian lover
The Good Manner: Advice on Asia from WoWasis’ Pa Farang Today’s question: Do women ever get financially robbed by male Asian lovers? Dear Pa Farang, We’ve all heard dozens/hundreds/thousands of stories about western guys getting cheated out of their money by Asian gals. I’m curious, does the opposite ever happen? Do western women ever get […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘The Korean War: a History,’ by Bruce Cumings
There are an awful lot of books on the history of the Korean War. So many, in fact, that it’s confusing determining which one to pick. The best we here at WoWasis have read, as well the shortest (at 243 pages of text), is Bruce Cumings’ The Korean War: a History (2010, ISBN 978-0-679-64357-9). The […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis product review: a wristwatch compass that’s efficient and inexpensive
Carry this great small compass with you whenever you’re in an unfamliar place
Read the rest of this entry »Ao Dai Festival of Vietnamese fashion to be held in San Jose, California in September, 2012
San Jose, California, is essentially the largest Vietnamese city outside of Vietnam, with an estimated 100,000 residents of Vietnamese ethnicity. Each year, San Jose hosts the Ao Dai Festival, celebrating the garment that is the paragon of traditional Vietnamese feminine fashion, with a fascinating history, and from what has been evident in past festivals, an intriguing […]
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WoWasis note: San Jose, California, is essentially the largest Vietnamese city outside of Vietnam, with an estimated 100,000 residents of Vietnamese ethnicity. Each year, San Jose hosts the Ao Dai Festival, celebrating the garment that is the paragon of traditional Vietnamese feminine fashion. San Jose’s Dan Do has written the following article on the history of […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Sex at the Margins’ by Laura María Agustín
The author of this book on the prostitution “rescue industry” caught our eye here on a WoWasis blog post earlier this year, when we reported this comment in her own blog, quoted from a Thai women’s organization: We have now reached a point in history where there are more women in the Thai sex industry being […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Ho Chi Minh: A Life’ by William J. Duiker
Author William J. Duiker worked in Saigon’s U.S. embassy during the Vietnam war years, and has penned an exhaustive review of the life of Ho Chi Minh in Ho Chi Minh: A Life (2001, ISBN 978-0786887019). The text is 577 pages long, and what really emerges is essentially the story of a conciliator who played […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis Book review: Timothy Hallinan’s ‘The Fear Artist’
In his latest book, The Fear Artist (2012, ISBN 978-1-61695-112-2), veteran Bangkok Fiction writer Timothy Hallinan sure knows how to make a reader feel that he or she is in Bangkok: The soi itself is almost as featureless as the stucco wall: a thin seam of asphalt too narrow for two cars, framed by a […]
Read the rest of this entry »How to avoid excessive phone charges when traveling in Asia
Avoiding excessive phone charges while traveling is easy. Here’s how…
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