By Kristine Sabillo More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study ...

Shutterstock A Journey Through Historic Homes and Gardens While Charleston’s cobblestone streets and antebellum mansions ...

THE Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) held its annual review and outlook (R&O) seminar this week, where industry experts provided a nuanced perspective on the plantation sector’s prospects for 2025.

They were requisitioned mostly to work in sugarcane plantations in European colonies facing a shortage of hands after the abolition of slavery across Europe in the mid-19th century. A few weekends ago ...

Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each ...

The island’s plantations thrived on coffee and cotton, and even within the Rothschild family and colonial circles, there were reservations about diversifying into tea. However, driven by a bold ...

Recent developments, such as the resurgence of the M23 rebel group and escalating tensions with Rwanda, paint a grim picture of a conflict deeply entrenched in colonial legacies of exploitation ...

Mr. Thondaman was a veteran plantation trade unionist ... both deeply and emotionally about the injustices done to the Kandyan peasantry during British colonial times, by the introduction of the ...

And, it was, arguably, his tryst with the British Raj that catalysed his transformation from Eric Blair – the son of a colonial opium agent – to Orwell, the “democratic socialist” who critiqued ...