How the Sassoons of Bombay became one of China’s wealthiest families
The 13-floor building was completed in 1929, a time when large parts of Shanghai were occupied by colonial forces and the ...
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Colonialism built Britain's economy. As calls for reparations grow, it's time Britain's politicians were honest about the ...
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
From 1863 to the early 20th century, over 62,000 Torres Strait Islander men, women, and children were uprooted from their ...
Spotlight on election of Kemi Badenoch as leader of Tories
Badenoch was born Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke in London to Nigerian parents, but Anglicised her first name. She and her husband, ...
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Singapore’s new chapter in the story of transnational commercial justice
THE global order is shifting from a unipolar world to a multipolar one, and with this shift, cross-border flows of trade and ...
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The First Company in History to be Listed on a Stock Exchange
The world’s first multinational company was also the first to be listed on a stock exchange. Of course, there’s a bit of a ...
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National Monuments Of Singapore: Goodwood Park Hotel (Tower Block)
Goodwood Park Hotel (Tower Block) was the 22nd building to be gazetted as a National Monument. Located near other National ...
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Robert Brenner: ‘The most extreme characteristics of US imperialism come from its relationship to the indigenous population’
The theory of imperialism put forward by Vladimir Lenin to end World War I remains, if properly qualified, the best point of ...
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From the India Today Archives (1984): The enduring legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru
Experiments with community development and panchayati raj were abandoned once it became clear that they wouldn't easily mesh ...
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Japan and UK ministers to cooperate in face of US tariff concerns, Nikkei reports
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and Britain are planning to establish a framework between their foreign and trade ministers on economic and trade ... citing Japanese and British government officials.
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‘Silk Roads’ Review: At the British Museum, a Dense Web of Trade and Transit
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Outgoing Japanese ambassador praises ‘Kuwait-Japan’ relations
The late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad had visited Japan in 2012. In 2016, both nations agreed to launch a comprehensive partnership. Oil trade is the cornerstone of bilateral relations between the two ...