Enter the News Dragon

With North Korea dominating global news headlines again, I can’t help but think of the North Koreans I have met. Mr. Kang was the foreign mi...

I got this assignment from my head office in a Southeast Asian state that we shall never name here (well, for now). They were like, oh, we w...

The Chinese say “what you think of during the day is what you dream about at night” (日有所思，夜有所梦). Hmm, shall I start a Chinese Idiom of the D...

One recent sunny and warm afternoon, my friend Ben and I were wandering around Lucerne, a quintessential Swiss town. The old churches and...

Btw I will never ever pay 25 Swiss Francs (that's 20 U.S. dollars, folks) for a plate of braised tofu with soy sauce. Chinese people so...

I chatted with a Thai friend online today. He’s a news anchor in Bangkok at a TV network that used to have close ties with the ousted prime ...

So I finally bit the bullet and decided to set up a real blog here. I gave it almost the identical title as my experimental, semi-secret blo...