Asia and Latin America

Welcome to the Metrotel Focus series on the countries of Asia and Latin America. We are already well known for our East Asia focus pages and our Thai Air News newsletter (published by ConnectedGlobe), which brings news about Thai Airways International and in-depth guides to the countries they serve.

We are now adding a similar section on the countries of Latin America. It will contain the same kind of in-depth information that made our Asia pages famous, and we will also be producing a Spanish language newsletter (published by 2000.com similar to our popular Thai Air News newsletter

We are also delighted to bring you a personal account of a trip to Beijing, some excellent pages on the Japanese art of calligraphy, and a discussion of a rather special pattern to be fond on Spode china. And it is our privilege to host an excellent short story about a chinese garden by the late John Rastello.

So browse the links below and add this page to your favourites. Over the next few months the information will grow substantially.

Other sections:

• Calligraphy: an introduction to this fascinating Japanese art.
• In a Chinese Garden: a short story by the late John Rastello.
• Trip to Beijing: a personal account of a trip to China's capital.
• Spode Dollar Pattern: the strange story of a pattern on Spode china.