Every year Travel + Leisure releases their list of the world’s best hotel awards ranking the top accommodation options. Looking at the top hotels list for hotels and resorts in Asia 2009, India, Thailand, China and Hong Kong dominate the list.

 
Following are the top Asian hotels in the best world hotels list for the [...]

There are some really great English language Taiwan blogs out there, and almost every week I discover another one that’s worth keeping track of. With 2010 almost in, I thought I’ll do a special 2009 summary tribute of the top of Taiwan’s expat blogosphere.
 
Note : I urge my fellow Taiwan bloggers to do the same. [...]

The 2009 Miss Universe Pageant is held at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas. Following our annual routine, we take a quick look at this year’s global perceptions of Asian beauty through the national contestants. Last year’s (2008) Miss Universe was Miss Venezuela Danyana Mendoza, and it was Miss Japan that made Asian beauty proud [...]

Trying to figure out the top ranking universities in Asia? Let me help you out.
Following is the best of the top world university rankings for the Asian academic universities analyzed for year 2009. Many of the leading rankings for 2009 still didn’t come out, but since I’ve been asked about this, I’ll post [...]

Having been here in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for about a month I can now say that the university is very serious about what it’s doing. Honestly, I’ve never seen anything quite like it. The whole academic language revolves around publishing with the common usage of "top-tier journals" "high impact factors". [...]

Yep, Miss World 2008 – Asian style. This event will be held during December. Last year is was China that both hosted Miss World and took the title with Zhang Zilin (张梓琳).
(UPDATE : Miss World 2008 is Miss Russia)
Here are some of this year’s East Asian contestants :
Miss China – Yan Ling Mei

Miss Taiwan (AKA [...]

There are a few world university rankings that came out during the past few months and so it’s an opportunity to refresh my rankings watchlist for Asia’s best universities.
Various other rankings posts include:

Top Asian Academic Universities in World University Rankings 2009
Asian academic research and the top research universities in Asia 2007
Best universities in [...]

Global Peace Index 2008 was recently announced. I can’t say that it makes a whole lot of sense to me, but there are some interesting info and stats in there. Following are the rankings for the Asian nations in the Global Peace Index :

Japan – 5
Hong Kong – 23
Singapore – 29
South Korea – 32
Vietnam [...]