The 13-floor building was completed in 1929, a time when large parts of Shanghai were occupied by colonial forces and the ...

The survey warned that high prices and dwindling opium stocks in the country may tempt Afghan farmers to ignore the Taliban’s ...

When HSBC ,opened its doors in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 1865, Chinese trade flows were just bubbling up again after the ...

The Taliban banned the cultivation of narcotics in 2022, causing a drop in opium production last year. However, this year it rose by 19%, according to a report by the UNODC. A UN report published ...

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares ...

Ghosh makes visible the moral double standards prevalent in social discourses, especially regarding trading and profiting ...

I was sitting at a table close to the door at a café trying to have a conversation about a sudden outbreak of rats that I am noticing, but the flow was broken by ...

VIENNA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban ...

Novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to ...

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan in 2024 increased by an estimated 19 per cent year-on-year to cover 12,800 hectares, according to a new survey released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ...

Alexandria's 16th Street Bridge is now a modern concrete structure that crosses Bayou Rapides in the same location that a ...

Famous for his martial arts prowess and charitable spirit, Wong Fei-hung has been widely respected as a legendary folk hero ...