In this photo taken on June 1, 2012, pedestrians cross a road near old colonial buildings in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. There's nowhere else in Asia like it any more: Yangon's cityscape is filled with ...

MUMBAI, August 6, 2010 - In a visual presentation, Asia in Those Days, collector and author Thomas Brandt provided a fascinating glimpse into colonial Asian life using pictures, lithographs, and metal ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

With world leaders and dignitaries flown in from across the globe, and a crowd of over two million people filling the streets of London, Queen Elizabeth’s funeral was closely watched in Britain and ...

A woman holds a placard protesting against the sedition case filed by police against a school after a play performed by students denouncing a new citizenship law, in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Feb. 4, ...

The first phase of European colonisation of Southeast Asia took place throughout the 16th and 17th centuries with Europeans seeking monopoly over the spice trade. It was big business then due to high ...