Asia (East, South, Southeast, Central)

1+ hour, 24+ min ago   (367+ words) The three-day exhibition in Brunei, organised by China's Guangxi Museum offers insight into the thousand-year history of exchanges between China and countries along the Maritime Silk Road – highlighting peace, cooperation, openness, inclusiveness, and mutual benefit. View all posts by James…...

2+ hour, 58+ min ago   (184+ words) Huamao village in Zunyi, Guizhou province, was once poor and underdeveloped. Today, it is lush and thriving. In 1935, the Zunyi Meeting helped set the course for the Red Army's Long March. Today, the spirit of the Long March, combined with…...

10+ hour, 9+ min ago   (405+ words) The sun had barely risen, but diver Elizaveta Bodrova was already raring to plunge into the cold waters of Lake Issyk-Kul, where the ruins of a once-thriving city have lain submerged for centuries. Situated on an ancient trading route between…...

10+ hour, 26+ min ago   (273+ words) On 23 May, 1923, the Irish Civil War officially ended, but many republican prisoners were kept in prison by the newly-established Free-State government, with some 12,000 men and women in prison in camps such as the Curragh and Gormanstown, and in Mountjoy and…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (758+ words) There was a time when Kitakyushu had a larger population than Fukuoka City. In the 1975 national census, Kitakyushu City had approximately 1,058,000 people, while Fukuoka City had approximately 1,002,000. Industries such as steelmaking were concentrated there, and the lives of the workers…...

1+ day, 18+ min ago   (1191+ words) During the Korean War, Wisconsin shelled North Korean and Chinese targets in support of United Nations and South Korean ground operations, after which she was decommissioned. It was there in 1952 that the North Koreans learned the folly of trying to…...

9+ hour, 36+ min ago   (81+ words) 500 W US Hwy 24 Independence, MO 64050 816-268-8200 | 800-833-1225 Fax: 816-268-8295 The Truman Library recently completed a massive renovation of the museum and its exhibitions, the first major renovation in more than 20 years and the largest since the museum opened its doors in 1957. Support the…...

10+ hour ago   (712+ words) The U.S. faced an unprecedented question after World War II: Should civilians or the military oversee its nuclear arsenal? The first atomic bomb explodes in a test at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hastened the…...

19+ hour, 26+ min ago   (908+ words) by Max Grünwald | Oct 13, 2026 | Aviazione militare | 0 comments Ask a room of warbird enthusiasts which was the best piston-engined fighter of the Second World War in Europe and you will start an argument that has been running for 80 years. Two names…...

10+ hour, 42+ min ago   (920+ words) Written by: Jesse Jenkins Less than nine years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States detonated a nuclear weapon roughly 1,000 times more powerful roughly 2,600 miles away, in the Marshall Islands. The March 1, 1954, Castle Bravo blast at Bikini Atoll…...