2024: Scientists announce the discovery of a long-lost branch of the River Nile, now dried up, that once ran near many of Egypt’s pyramids. On the same day, actor Dabney Cioleman dies aged 92.

On a family visit to Guangzhou, China, writer Bonnie Tsui discovers that she, like the city, is ever evolving.

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Erected in 2011, the Ho Chi Minh Monument is part of a series of busts in the area that honour notable figures such as China’s Deng Xiaoping, and Filipino national hero, Jose Rizal. Celebrating in ...

The so-called “Boat People” became an international humanitarian disaster. After Le Duan’s death in 1986, the party adopted the Deng Xiaoping–style Doi Moi reforms and has since successfully ...

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The story of Art Deco architecture begins on April 28, 1925, when one of the most important exhibitions in the history of modern design and applied arts threw open its doors. The Exposition ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Like other tycoons, who rose in the city's postwar economic boom and then thrived as mainland China abandoned orthodox Marxism, Lee met with former top Chinese leaders, including Deng Xiaoping and ...

Whether it is “a blue spy, green spy, white spy, it doesn’t matter what kind of spy, as long as it hurts Taiwan, it’s a good spy,” he said, an apparent reference to the “cat theory” of former Chinese ...