Lyon City, the capital of the Gauls, now a dynamic regional metropolis that symbolises the best in culinary specialities and listed as a Unesco World heritage site, owes a great deal to the silk merchants and « Canuts » (silk workers) of its past. The epic industrial saga of Lyon’s ‘luxury’ silk …

Malaysia’s tropical vegetation provides an ideal habitat for a diverse population of animal life, including large mammals, primates, crocodiles, and hundreds of species of birds, snakes, lizards, and insects. Along with a burgeoning industrial economy that employs the majority of Pinang’s workforce, tourist attractions such as this butterfly farm have …