This in turn raises the issue of Britain's long history of global trade, imperialist expansion, and colonial exploitation across the East, most famously concentrated on the subcontinent of India.

A British base in Southeast Asia, where four countries dispute China’s maritime claims, would give ships quicker access to any further missions like the one August 31.

Preserving Asia’s last bastion of colonial era. Jun 26, 2012, 3:21 PM. Share . ... visitors are treated to a smorgasbord of structures and styles from the British colonial era: Victorian, ...

Created by the British, 377 has had a widespread damaging effect in former colonies, say activists.

When she took the throne in 1952, more than a quarter of the world's population was under British imperial power. That was more than 700 million people — including in parts of Africa, Asia, the ...

There's nowhere in Asia like it any more: a cityscape studded with hundreds of grand and humble buildings from the colonial era amid multiethnic communities that have remained intact, vibrant and ...