Myanmar's colonial style buildings are at risk of being torn down, according to The Los Angeles Times. The country was annexed by the British in 1824 and like other colonized countries, visible in its ...

The next time you stroll through Statue Square in Central Hong Kong, imagine you are surrounded on three sides by neoclassical Victorian buildings, and the ornate entrance to Queen’s Pier as you look ...

Yangon, in Myanmar, has lost hundreds of colonial buildings to rapid development over the past two decades. A handful of heritage hotels -- think teak mansions and grand colonial facades -- are ...

SINCE MYANMAR began to reverse decades of isolationism in 2011, it has embraced modernity with a zeal befitting a country deprived of it for so long. Students tap smartphones, food-delivery jockeys ...

Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, but reminders of its 156 years under British rule remain in the form of public buildings from the early decades of the colonial era. Of course, many ...

Taiwan’s half century under Japanese colonial rule (1895–1945) represents an important thread in our island’s cultural fabric. The many buildings still standing from this period are a physical record ...

YANGON, Myanmar — They stand like ghosts from a bygone era, struggling to maintain a shabby dignity in the face of creeping foliage and years of neglect, all the while fueling a debate: Should they be ...

Reporting from Yangon, Myanmar — They stand like ghosts from a bygone era, struggling to maintain a shabby dignity in the face of creeping foliage and years of neglect, all the while fueling a debate: ...

Luxury cruise liners, like this docked at Falmouth, Jamaica, will take tourists to learn about a dark side in the history of the British Empire - ISTOCK Jamaica will preserve British colonial sites as ...

From 1939 to 1960, Grambling State University was the only institution of higher learning available to African Americans in North Louisiana. During this period, the earliest buildings on the present ...

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced today that his office has reached a settlement with Colonial Management over the company’s maintenance of 42 rent-regulated buildings in New ...