Thousands of Western students have studied Mandarin Chinese in Universites in Taiwan, and whilst there some of them moonlight by teaching English. And the same goes for pensions and annuties remitted to the Philppines. The Singapore Embassy which seems almost to go to great lengths to help provide info to expats to work there. The embassy also has a good reference library with local newspapers. The Hong Kong Government Office is also helpful with leaflets and advise, and a well-stocked library including the territory's 3 English newspapers.
Some members are expats living there.
If you live in say Sngapore, Hong Kong, or Kuala Lumpur where it is very westernised, life working there should be quite similar to the West. Expats may actually get a better life there than in a similar position in the West. You would also find attitudes of people may also be different. However, if you have mixed with Asian members in Long Yang Club, you should not find that people there will surprise you too much. In Malaysia, although homosexuality is officially illegal , the authorities tend to close one eye .