SEVENTY years ago this town was known as Elopura — meaning, in Sanskrit, “Beautiful City”; now it is Sandakan, North Borneo, officially described as “the worst-destroyed town in the Far East.” The ...

Its very name still carried echoes of pirates’ cries and winds of empire roaring in blowzy sails. It was the last of the big chartered governing companies which carried the City of London to India, ...

Here is the personal record of an American girl who married an English official and went with him to the farthest outpost of the British Empire. Nothing in her upbringing in California, no course she ...

KUCHING, Sarawak, Malaysia, January 21, 2010 (ENS) – Sarawak’s natives have won two important court cases over native land issues, their attorney announced this morning in the Sarawak state capital of ...