HONG KONG: Shares in China's top soy sauce maker Foshan Haitian ended slightly higher on its debut on Thursday (Jun 19) after raising US$1.3 billion in one of Hong Kong's biggest initial public ...

The US scheme in Vietnam was a copy of British strategy used to stop a rebellion in the the then colony of Malaya in the 1950s, which also involved destroying crops with defoliants and forcing ...

Kenya, a former British colony, became independent in 1963. BATUK, on its website, says it is the biggest British Army contingent in Africa. It says it conducts training with Kenya’s military ...

He would not relinquish the post until 1990, and the PAP still holds a supermajority in the legislature. In 1946, following the end of Japanese occupation, the British dissolved the Straits ...

King Charles III arrived in Canada for a symbolic visit showing support for the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to make it the 51st U.S. state.

It was from this airbase that American bombers flew combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. B-1 bombers at the airbase. Photo credits: istory/Universal Images Group Under the terms of the agreement, ...

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — For as long as he can remember, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has had a recurring dream. He’s at some racetrack, in a garage or the pits, and there’s his daddy talking to some guys.

Canada was “not impressed” by the King’s invitation to Donald Trump for an unprecedented second state visit to the UK, the country’s prime minister has said. Freshly elected leader Mark ...

In Iraq, the CIA engineered a coup to oust the government of Prime Minister Abdul Karim-Qasim in 1963 and installed the Ba’athist Party in power. Iraq’s oil fields too were now under Western control.

Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi was born into a prominent Muslim family on Nov. 26, 1939, in Kampung Perlis, on Penang Island, in what was then British Malaya. (The colony gained independence in 1957.) ...

The Philippines was the largest U.S. colony when Japan invaded in 1941, and the war there was the bloodiest event to occur on U.S. soil, though you’ll find little mention of it in most textbooks.

After the British retook Malaya, Narayanan took up clerical jobs in rubber estates. Although his condition was better than the labourers on the plantations, many of them indentured, he felt a great ...