Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Méabh Mc Mahon with MEPs Riho Terras, Markéta Gregorová and Stine Bosse in the European Parliament in Strasbourg ...

Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...

Boris Johnson says there is "no way" a solution to the Russia-Ukraine war can be found without Ukrainian input, but has ...

After deserting a merchant ship in Boston, he enlisted in the Royal Navy and served aboard the warship Impérieuse on the China Station during the Taiping Rebellion. In 1862, he transferred to the ...

Taiping, which means “everlasting peace” in Chinese, was established in 1874 following the end of the Larut War, to mark the peace between warring tin mining groups. Back then, Taiping was a ...

The man who saw himself as a patriot, but is remembered as one of China's worst traitors. A writer still read by every Chinese pupil and considered China's greatest modern author. The influential ...

However, the garden ended up taking some hits, enduring both British occupation during the Opium Wars and again by the French during the Taiping Rebellion. Despite the turmoil, the garden remained ...

The story of the Taiping Rebellion - which historian Michael Wood calls the 'worst war of the 19th Century'. The Rise of Mao ZeDong. videoThe Rise of Mao ZeDong Historian Michael Wood explores the ...

One of the most-anticipated Chinese New Year films, Four Seas will release on 1 February. Directed by Han Han, the movie stars Liu Haoran, Zhang Youhao, Qiao Shan, Liu Haocun, Yin Zheng, Shen Teng and ...

In 1911, the Long Bar introduced the Famous Shanghai Buck, China’s first classic cocktail, which created a sensation in the ...

But his heart was in Malaya where he had spent his transformative years, so when World War II ended ... appeals to work in nearer towns such as Taiping, Alor Setar and Ipoh were rejected, Dr ...