The hotel manager offers a broad smile as he guides me down the boat ramp on to the warm sand of the eastern shore of Phi Phi Island (pronounced "PP").

Mystery has enveloped the ginseng industry-the biggest customer for a small Canadian county has disappeared.

It took some time to adjust to the gloom after the bright sunshine outside.

Hawker centres abound but the Maxwell Centre, one of the biggest, is a good place to start your cheap-eats journey.

The market is one of many scattered across South Korea's capital - a city humming with activity and life - and a drawcard for locals and tourists.

It was a time for firsts: my first five-star executive suite, my first massage, my first Michelin dining experience, and my first visit to a casino.

It wasn't what I'd imagined a tsunami shelter would look like.

Perched high up in Singapore's vertigo-inducing Supertrees, I'm struck by the scale of the island's ambitions.

New Zealand could become a major exporter of gas to Asia, Energy and Resources minister Simon Bridges says.

The plane crawls high above the Mekong delta - flooded paddy, intestinal loops of river, roads crammed with Honda 50s and lined with shops selling rice and Marlboros.

Recovery from the tormenting years of Khmer Rouge's reign, up until a decade ago, has been slow but sure for Cambodia.

A steep rise in China's reported imports from Hong Kong has raised concerns that trade invoices are being manipulated to get capital.

The thing about Burma's Myeik Archipelago is there are no tourists.

Hanoi's old quarter is brimming with life. A steady stream of motorcycles whizz by as we weave through the dense crowd of shoppers along Hang Dao.

A small village in the northern Philippines has been overwhelmed by the increase of tourists in recent years.

The prime minister wooed investors at a glitzy event, but executives said more reforms are needed.

Ladies market is an oldie but a goody at Mong Kok, Kowloon.

The Chinese Communist Party has explained Xi's "Four Comprehensives" in a mystifying and rather cute pop video.

China is adding debt at a pretty fast pace even though it's already done too much of that the last seven years.

Markets started the week gripped by a fresh bout of risk aversion, as Asian stocks slipped with energy-linked currencies.

Asian share markets swept lower on Monday after Wall Street suffered its worst starting week in history.

In a capital city that's passionately embracing the future, Bridget Jones finds traces of a glorious past.

China's economic rebalancing remained intact as the first economic reports of 2016 signaled manufacturing weakened for a fifth straight month.

As rubber prices slump, 20 of 30 workers who drain sticky latex from trees on Winai Chaikunanant's plantation quit.

Off the Japanese coast, Eric Young explores an island where stunning art meets brilliant architecture.

Two decades of India's information-technology success and the English-speaking engineers have created a fertile ground for e-commerce companies and tech start-ups.

Our day-trip dollars become micro-loans to empower rural women, writes Naomi Estall.

Sophie Barclay visits a tourist-free part of Hong Kong.

Three days in Shanghai's metropolis is one way to touch the sky, discovers Katie Wright.