Marina Mahathir

When you are a woman, juggling the facets of work, family, travel, and society is a different ball game from that of a man.

Jetlag and nightmarish traffic were among the challenges Marina Mahathir faced when she travelled almost nonstop for a month.

You've heard of Amelia Earhart and Yuri Gagarin. What about Katherine Cheung and Liu Yang?

Marina shares her best hacks and tips on how to stay fit and healthy while jet-setting from city to city.

This year has been extraordinary for me in that I’ve made so many long-distance time-zone crossing trips over very short periods of time, both planned and unplanned. While generally I enjoy long plane flights for their insulation against earth-bound work and irritations, it does mean that I also have to suffer that inevitable side-effect: Jet…

What I am talking about are the physical effects of travel, when your body starts behaving as if it belongs to another person entirely. This happens when...

I don’t use taxis much in KL. I have a driver who takes me everywhere so efficiently that I rarely need to look to see where he takes me. As a result, on...

In 1995, along with some 30,000 other women ( and a few men), I attended the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. Or, to put it more precisely

Voices of Zafigo is where we ask women who are living in a city, what their tips and advice would be for women travelling to the city for work or for leisure, especially for the first time, that could help make their travels to the city better, safer, more interesting and more enjoyable.

There are some things we take for granted when travelling abroad, especially to first world countries. One is that our luggage won’t get lost.

Every year on March 8, I get the same cynical question from men. “Why,” they ask, “should women have a day all to themselves?”

That may sound like an unfortunate title since professional escorts at the top of their game are known to jet round the world to service their clients.