Gay China, Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macau

Just got back to home (Australia) after my first time to Taiwan for Taipei pride. My summary impressions is that the city is amazing, the boys are super cute plus kinky and all the gay venues/ activities were amazing. So many posts about Thailand, but I’m super shocked there isn’t more forum theads on Taipei, so I'm guessing there isn’t more interest from readers for a full trip report?

From CNBC Major global airlines are reducing services and, in some instances, withdrawing from China altogether as longer routes to Asia following the closure of Russian airspace have raised operational costs, while demand has been low. Virgin Atlantic and Scandinavian Airlines, for instance, are completely withdrawing from China, the companies’ websites show. Virgin Atlantic ceased all flights to Hong Kong — and closed an office there — in 2022, ending the airline’s 30-year presence in the Asian financial hub. A report from travel news site Skift shows that seven major airlines have retreated from the country in the past four months. John Grant,…

From Pattaya Mail By Barry Kenyon Thailand is far from unique in chasing up taxes on financial resources held overseas. The Straits Times reports a Chinese crackdown on overseas investments such as cryptocurrency, offshore banking and stakes in Hong Kong and US international companies. Peter Li, from the Zhong Lum Law Firm, commented that Chinese tax authorities are now targeting income received from outside China as tax revenue has fallen by 2.6 percent and land sales are plummeting by 25 percent. Unlike Thailand, China does not distinguish between assessable and non-assessable overseas income but does honor its double taxation treaties with over 100…

From Pattaya News I have flown more than a million miles with dozens of airlines around the world – and have lost count of how many times I’ve hopped on an Air China plane for the short trip from Beijing to Shanghai. During the week, airlines schedule more than 60 flights everyday between the country’s capital and financial hub – each way – often using their biggest jets, from the iconic Boeing 747 to the newest Airbus A350. With plenty of widebody options in its fleet of almost 1,000 planes, Air China deployed a narrowbody for my flight on a recent Thursday morning. But it wasn’t just any narrowbody – it was the flag carrier’s first, and so far the o…

From BBC The killing of a Japanese schoolboy in the Chinese city of Shenzhen has sparked worry among Japanese expats living in China, with top firms warning their workers to be vigilant. Toshiba and Toyota have told their staff to take precautions against any possible violence, while Panasonic is offering its employees free flights home. Japanese authorities have repeated their condemnation of the killing while urging the Chinese government to ensure the safety of their citizens. The stabbing of the 10-year-old boy on Wednesday was the third high-profile attack on foreigners in China in recent months. Some members of the Japanese ex…

From The Thaiger Hong Kong Airlines is upping the ante for travel lovers, rolling out a brand-new daily flight to Chiang Mai starting on October 27. This exciting expansion marks the airline’s third destination in Thailand, adding to its Bangkok and Phuket routes, and promises to give tourists even more reasons to visit the Land of Smiles. Flight HX749 is set to take off from Hong Kong at 3.30pm local time (2.30pm Thailand time) and will touch down in the northern Thai province by 5.35pm. The return flight, HX750, will depart at 6.35pm, landing in Hong Kong by 10.20pm local time. With this new route, travellers can now explore northern Thailand’s cultural heartl…

From CNN Hong KongCNN — Interested in capping off your trip to Hong Kong with a long weekend in Beijing or Shanghai? A new high-speed sleeper train service is making that possibility easier than ever. Two new overnight routes connecting the city with Beijing and Shanghai entered into service on June 15. Both trains depart Hong Kong West Kowloon Station in the evening and arrive in Beijing at 6.53 a.m. and Shanghai at 6.45 a.m., making the journeys around 12.5 hours and 11 hours respectively. Return trips depart from Beijing and Shanghai at around 8 p.m. and arrive in Hong Kong at 8.47 a.m. and 7.29 a.m. These routes run four days a week, departin…

NOTE — I know VN national who worked several years in construction in Taiwan. He was treated well by employor but when eventually detained by police, treated very bad. Was not allowed to shower for ten days pending return home. Spent three days in Hanoi hospital, recuperating. . From Thai PBS World A Taiwanese employer is being held in police custody in Yilan County, in northeast Taiwan, on suspicion that he may have been involved in the death of a Thai illegal migrant worker, reported Taiwan’s Liberty Times. The Thai man went to Taiwan on a tourist visa, but worked illegally in Yilan until Tuesday. The Thai consular office in Taiwan sought local police he…

I'm currently in Chengdu and was searching for gay venues in English on bing and in Chinese on baidu. Few results. I went to MC bar and sauna and a local told me they closed two years ago. I went to Tata bar and there is now a different business, which was not open Friday night around 9. How to find gay venues? Gay online dating similar. I scrolled down on blued a bit, and when I reached 610 km distance, there is a message "There are no more guys, please check it later." Is there an international version of blued which I am using, and a local one they are using? (Taking advantage of 15 days visa free for Germans and various others. Gayguides is not blocked in Ch…

From National Public Radio Hong Kong's LGBTQ community is cautiously optimistic that the government will legalize same-sex marriage following landmark rulings in favor of granting gay and lesbian couples more rights. Hong Kong's civil liberties have been in decline since China's government imposed a national security law there. That law followed large-scale and sometimes violent anti-government protests in 2019. But the rights of LGBTQ people seem to have been left alone for the most part. And this year, Hong Kong's courts made several key rulings in favor of granting gay and lesbian couples more rights. This is sparking hopes that the city will join a growing n…

How do I know what's the best place in Taipei to get money? Is there a good place at the airport? Thanks for any advice.

From Reuters China on Friday cut visa fees by 25% for travellers from countries including Thailand, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam, and the Philippines from December 11 2023 to December 31 2024, according to statements from the Chinese foreign ministry and embassies. The policy so far covers hundreds of millions of travellers from over a dozen countries and will make it cheaper for them to get a visa to travel to China This is the latest in a slew of measures China has recently taken to increase inbound travel from foreign tourists and business people amid a sputtering recovery in the world's second-largest economy. …

Hello friends any tips on where to go for a good massage with cute young fit masseurs in Hong Kong? Preferably on the Hong Kong side.

They have to a large extent operated under the gaydar. Yet Asia's first-ever Gay Games - known as the Gay Olympics, the week-long annual event marking inclusion and diversity - will end today with a large closing ceremony. 2,400 athletes along with their friends, families and members of Hong Kong's own LGBTQ community will join hands in celebration of a highly successful week to dance to disco music with 'gay' abandon. It was all very different in 2017 when Hong Kong was awarded the Games to join the hosts of previous Games like Paris, Amsterdam and Sydney. There was joy among the gay communities throughout Asia, a joy that in part celebrated Hong Kong's continuing …

Planning a trip to Taipei and wondering if it’s worth spending a couple of days first in Kaohsiung? Is it easy to meet young, good looking guys at bars on Thursday and Friday evenings? Or would it be better to just spend more time in Taipei? Thanks!

I still can't believe they didn't break the record of 2019. Both me and my Taiwanese friends agreed that they have never seen so many tourists going to the pride: https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/29/taiwan-pride-march-east-asia/

It's been splashed over all the newspapers. China is in a mess - certainly economically and almost certainly politically as well. Local governments are mired in debt. The two largest property developers are quickly drowning in monstrous debts, they cannot sell much of their inventory and have been unable to complete many that Chinese citizens have already paid for. This has led to at least one riot. Almost 12% of recent graduates cannot find jobs. With youth unemployment already at 20.4% in April this year, so many are out of work that the state has now ceased publishing statistics. President Xi's admonition that, as during Mao's Cultural Revolution, these young people sh…

I post this purely for information. I had never heard of the website Gayifiers until I was checking the web for some more detail about gay massage in Taipei. It's a London based site and i have no idea where it gets its information. It seems to be new given that several pages have "Coming Soon" against the content. But the information on Taipei massage was good and it includes a few reviews. Bangkok massage information has 5 listed including two I have not heard of before - Taywa Massage and Spa which seems to be staffed mostly by university students, and a second which is no doubt known to some readers, 9-Teen Massage on Silom Soi 8. The massage section also has inf…

Hong Kong is used to heavy rainfall. Following the collapse of part of the Island's north facing hillside in the 1970s, massive underground reservoirs were constructed to hold excess rainfall and route it into the sea to the south of the island. On Friday, though, it suffered its heaviest rain since records began 140 years ago. Apart from major flooding, the north shore of the island escaped with relatively little damage. On the south side, though, it was a different matter. The torrential rain resulted in part of the hillside in front of the expensive privately-built residences in the Redhill development collapsing, leaving some housing in imminent danger of collapse int…

From Reuters BEIJING, Aug 28 (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said on Monday that inbound travellers to the country no longer need a pre-departure antigen test for COVID-19 from Aug. 30.

Hey friends, what are the best saunas in Hk ? hotong used to be amazing. A little sticky but lots of fun. any other suggestions ?

The popular gay hotel GS has recently closed and wil not reopen. According to its facebook page, its licence was not renewed, although for what reason I have no idea. I cannot believe this is due to any anti-gay sentiment. Some years ago the very popular Huang Ding sauna which had a lot of gay activitiy going on both in its steam room and in a downstairs open area was closed. But this was due to numerous notices about the unacceptable quality of its water going unheeded. (And no, I never noticed any goings on in the pools themselves!)

Well, I was able to spend one week in gay Taipei and had a blast. This site helped me prepare for the itinerary. I had the week all mapped out and ready to go and see the saunas and massage places and I had 3 dates pre arranged from the apps. I worked hard to prepare. Like all things in life, things did not go as planned. I visited nothing I had planned. I took a taxi from the airport to my hotel. The driver was very talkative and I was too. I told him I was there to see the gay scene and he said his son was gay and just finished Freshman year in University. He said his English was not as good as his but he could give me a tour. I thought this was a bit odd, but I'm …

From Thai PBS World / AFP Taiwan staged its first-ever military drill at Taoyuan International Airport on Wednesday, briefly halting commercial traffic as soldiers practised defending the facility against a simulated attack by Beijing. The exercise is part of Taiwan’s week-long massive wargames — the annual “Han Kuang” (Han Glory) drills — which this year has included protecting civilian airports as Beijing ramps up military and political pressures on the island. This is the first such drill held at Taiwan’s biggest airport near the capital since it opened in 1979. Analysts said Taiwan is drawing experiences from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, …