Getting more Bangkok for your buck is fraught with pitfalls for rookie westerners.

Many of Tashkent's streets are built on an impressively generous scale - a legacy of the Soviet era.

Hospitality from an ex-pat Kiwi family in Kazakhstan provides a restful break for the 51st Traverse team.

I can't help wondering why countries like Uzbekistan, which want to attract more tourists, persist in making arrival unwelcoming.

Efforts to contact a New Zealander known to be in India's remote Himalayan region of Ladakh hit by flash floods are continuing today.

A New Zealand man is missing in a flood-stricken area of northern India.

The search will continue today for an Air New Zealand pilot who went missing on a tramp in Hong Kong four days ago.

The NZ Breakers basketball team leave today for a hastily arranged trip to China to play in an annual pre-season tournament.

Winston Aldworth finds a coffee culture of a different kind in this Balinese village.

Spicy food flavoured with hot chilli peppers contains a natural chemical ingredient that may lower blood pressure, the study revealed.

Shaolin temple, the Buddhist monastery that's also the birthplace of Chinese kung fu, is now a World Heritage site.