SANAA (Reuters) - Traditional mud brick tower houses have always been a source of pride to Yemenis, and over a year into a devastating civil war, they are also providing some much-needed jobs in the ...

Pottery in ancient Greece, as elsewhere, was fired in a specially-made ceramic kiln. Other firing structures, including food ovens, smelting furnaces, and lime kilns, would have been unsuitable for ...

Tile and brick making was once a thriving industry in the small water town of Jinxi in Kunshan. Thanks to extensive re-creation works, the glamorous history of this trade can now be observed in the ...

A laborer loads baked bricks into a cart at a brick kiln in Bath village near Lahore. (Photo: Kamran Chaudhry) In 2018, Rafiq Gulzar took a peshgi — an advance payment against labor — from a bhatta ...

Four years ago, Sharif Masih was ‘sold’ along with his debts by his master to another brick kiln owner. The 42-year-old Pakistani Catholic now toils at a new kiln in Faisalabad, Punjab province. He ...

FARGO - In the back of North Dakota State University's downtown Renaissance Hall, a labor of love is taking shape, brick by brick. There, David Swenson, associate professor of visual arts at NDSU, and ...

Hyatt Hotels Corporation announces the opening of KYLN Hotel Suzhou under the JdV by Hyatt brand. Located in the Xiangcheng ...

Poverty fuelled partly by climate change has pushed countless Cambodian families - often rural farmers - into the country's booming brick industry PHNOM PENH, Feb 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...