Walking a section of Ealing Road in Wembley reveals an ornate temple, colourful fabric and gift shops and culinary highlights ...

A COMPARISON OF BUDDHIST AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY’ Prof. Asoka Amaratunga is well known to the readers of The Island by his ...

Staying true to its role as a cultural melting pot, the Hexi Corridor was where both Tibetan and Han Buddhism flourished. A ...

The howling of wind and pounding of hooves, the battle cries and clinking of cold glistening sword, the solemn chanting of ...

The pempek restaurants in the Plaju neighborood were full to the gills in early March. Palembang chefs pulverized mudfish caught from the Musi River into subtle variations of the historic city’s ...

This ultra-premium 14-day expedition redefines adventure with five-star indulgence, private train travel, and cultural ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Wendy Wu Tours has unveiled what it calls its most exclusive travel experience yet: Legends of the Silk Road. The ...

Spanning themes from nature and history to technology, these films exemplify how cross-cultural collaboration is reshaping ...

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.

Armed with anecdotes, historical evidence, maps and slides, the author-historian outlined India's ancient soft power in his ...