Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese and Hong Kong flags on Friday mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China from Britain. Hong Kong is ...

HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is ...

Canada’s path to independence stands as one of history’s most remarkable political transformations. While revolutions and bloody conflicts shaped many nations, Canada crafted its sovereignty through ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

When King Charles III is crowned on Saturday, soldiers carrying flags from the Bahamas, South Africa, Tuvalu and beyond will march alongside British troops in a spectacular military procession in ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The Caribbean island of Barbados on Monday prepared to wave goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, cut ties with its colonial past and become a republic for the first ...

If you spend a day soaking up the Cypriot sun, you’ll notice a few subtle signs that this Mediterranean island was once a ...

BEIJING — Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese territory was ever a British colony. China’s Communist rulers say the semiautonomous city and the ...