The Grand Trunk Road is the oldest, longest, and most famous highway in southern Asia. For millennia the Grand Trunk Road was used by invaders to conquer the subcontinent. After the British arrived in the 17th century, they used it as the main artery...

May 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of Poland joining the European Union. During the past decade Poles have established themselves as the largest group of economic migrants ever to arrive in Britain. Over half a million people use Polish as their ...

In July 2014 Yorkshire will host Le Grand Depart, the first two stages of the world's greatest cycle race, the Tour de France. The riders will travel through spectacular countryside as well as much of the region's former industrial heartland. Many of...

Child malnutrition has reached emergency levels in Pakistan, particularly in Sindh province, where monsoon floods devastated the country's poorest region for a second year running. It is the single biggest contributor to deaths amongst under-fives by...

In Linfen, the most polluted city on earth, the smog is so thick that it seems to consume its source. Steel plants, coking plants and cement factories loom out of the haze and then disappear once more as one travels along the outskirts of this city. ...

In Jilin province, at the heart of China's industrial rust belt, a new coal power station is under construction. The station is already operational but every day is another step in its gradual but steady expansion. It is a scene repeated across the ...

A thick layer of grey ash covers the surface of the roads leading to an industrial site. The air in the city is acrid and thick. Steel plants, coking plants and cement factories loom out of the haze and disappear once more as one travels beyond the city....

The writer J.G. Ballard died on April 19th 2009 at the age of 78. He had lived in a semi-detached house in Shepperton, a commuter town outside London, for most of his life.'I came to live in Shepperton in 1960' he told an interviewer in 2008. 'I ...

Beijing has undergone enormous change in the space of a few years. Although the political regime remains the same, the loosening of economic policies and regulations is the main driver of this change. As a result investment in real estate in Beijing and ...

The Three Gorges Dam project, first conceived by Mao in the 1970s and due for completion in 2006, is an extraordinary feat of engineering. The dam is 185 metres tall and 2,309 metres long. Behind its vast walls, a reservoir will stretch over 650 ...

It's almost midnight in Dalston, an up and coming area of East London, as we arrive at Die Freche Muse, a neo-burlesque club night that describes itself as 'irreverent, decadent, sexually ambivalent and dissolute'. The location had been kept secret ...

This project explores the industrial hinterlands of four remote provinces in northern China: Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shanxi and Shaanxi. In the past three decades the rapid process of industrialisation has transformed their formerly bucolic ...

This project is a road trip around the coastal regions of England, Wales and Scotland, which together make up an island that is the largest in Europe and the ninth largest in the world. My intention is to explore aspects of Britain's identity by ...

Every day, busloads of Russians cross into Chinese border towns like Suifenhe and Dongning to buy cheap Chinese goods. They are entrepreneurs, here for business. The items available range from textiles to timber to scrap metal. However, behind this ...

Even by the standards of hermit regimes, Burma lives in a world of its own, a shadow of the country that was once the world's largest rice producer. Rangoon, once so alive with diversity and people from across the region is today a place of ...

With golf courses, marinas, hotel complexes and amusement parks mushrooming out of the ground and the waters along the the Straits of Johor, Malaysia's watery border with Singapore, the area is being transformed into an Eldorado for the region's ...