Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age 8 and sold to ...

The South China Sea islands were of little interest to both European imperialists and local empires – until they became viewed as a tool in geostrategic and nationalistic posturing. A very short ...

Neo Sora discusses how his Asian Film Awards nominated film 'Happyend' portrays friendship fracturing along political lines ...

Khiri Travel has launched two major series of tour products – Asian city day tours that indulge all five senses, and a series ...

Over the next two decades, Britain and other colonial powers including France and Portugal lost their grip on nation after nation in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Some former colonies were ...

One recent sunny morning in the shadow of the Himalayas, I stood beside a grave in the historic British Cemetery in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, as a Gurkha soldier in full dress uniform played a ...

“There needs to be this critique of the idea of encounters, the idea being that there had always been interaction throughout Asia, Africa, but that there was a new kind of interaction that was created ...

The third biggest colonial power after the 15th century was Spain. The Spanish Empire oversaw colonies in South America, North America, Africa, and Asia. At its height, it controlled over 30 ...

In an post-screening Q&A ahead of the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong ... to the fact that Japan hasn’t really reflected on its colonial past.” The filmmaker elaborated on post-WWII policies ...