I thought I should share my experience here. Not having much luck with other applications and nearing the end of my PhD with a young family and needing money I leapt at the opportunity when I was offered a lectureship with a top Australian uni with a campus in Asia. I had a contract for 5 years and to be honest I loved the work. I was able to flex my wings as an academic, get grants, get projects going and was living the dream having skipped the 'post-doc' rung of the ladder. After two years though the hectic asian lifestyle so foreign to the one my family was used to started to wear on us. The traffic, smog and pollution was the final straw. I realised during this time that was I was also missing was mentorship. Whilst I was protected somewhat by working for a global uni these resources weren't necessarily directly on hand. I thought if I kept going my research could seriously take a wrong tack with no guidance. So we returned home. Now with a long string of publications, 2 years lectureship experience and lots of grants I still can't get a job! So... my point is - if you can put up with a difficult lifestyle and are able to find your feet with no guidance then there are LOTS of jobs going in Asia. I don't regret my decision and am still happily putting out all the papers that arose from my time there but it was quite a sacrifice. Academia is taking a scary turn over there (there were 25 more global universities going in over the next few years in the country I was in) and internationally (saw 950 PhD scholarships offered at Oxford the other day but no post-doc funding). I'd like to see a better post-phd path offered by universities/governments that encourages people to step outside the departments where they started but still get some guidance.Hope this helps.