The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has unveiled a road map to introduce 20 measures under a five-year initiative aimed at modernising the city’s trade finance landscape and strengthening ...

Pottery linked to the transatlantic slave trade has been discovered during building works at a Liverpool dock. Fragments of sugar moulds - used in the processing of raw sugar into sugar loaves, ...

Geopolitical tensions between the US and Venezuela underscore the vulnerability of the global economy and trade to political conflict. While a full-scale trade war is unlikely in the short term, such ...

When the slave ship Zorg set sail for the Caribbean from the African island of São Tomé on Sept. 6, 1781, it embarked on a horrific journey that would ultimately awaken a movement to end England’s ...

As Suriname celebrates 50 years of independence, the spectre of Dutch colonial rule and its role in the slave trade still lingers. The king and queen of the Netherlands touched down in the small South ...

A United States commander said treaty allies South Korea, Japan and the Philippines could form a "strategic triangle" to contain China if military planners view the region from a nontraditional ...

The reports were piling in, one worse than the next. Kenyan maids working in Saudi Arabia had their passports confiscated, wages denied and food withheld. Some were beaten by their bosses for offenses ...

In the powerful new history “The Zorg,” Siddharth Kara tells a shocking story of mass killing, human baseness and the seeds of conscience. The horrifying case of ...

Calls for reparative justice over the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism dominated proceedings at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, as African and Global South leaders ...

A life-sized bronze memorial, "Our Ancestors Come With Us," has been unveiled in Bristol, Rhode Island, acknowledging the town's role in the transatlantic slave trade. The memorial, created by RISD ...

Some Americans might have trouble finding the West African country of Benin on a map of the continent, but if Benin President Patrice Talon has his way, Benin will become as well-known as the more ...