He fondly remembers the names of his British commanders. "We kept our loyalty," he says. But Britain did very little to repay this loyalty. Sally McLean grew up steeped in stories of Burma.

The British colonized Burma in a series of three wars beginning in 1824. During their rule, the Arakan problem declined as the British allowed for a relative degree of local autonomy. From 1824 to ...

Some still recalled the day in 1885 when Burma’s last king, brash Thibaw, sailed into exile and the British took over. Now, British rule was at an end. Atop gloomy Government House, where the ...

A report on this day issued by British government in Calcutta said new commercial regulations had been laid down about trade ...

Under the British the "frontier areas" had been administered separately from Burma proper, and there was real doubt whether these frontier peoples would go along with the Burmans in demanding ...

Japan's soldiers had marched to Kohima through what was then Burma - their aim to invade India. The Japanese had already routed the British in Burma, but no-one expected them to successfully ...

(See Training Elephants, Plate 38 in the art section.) With the British annexation of Burma in 1885 came new forces which were completely to change the patterns of Burmese writing: the printing ...

Myanmar's State Administration Council on Saturday pardoned approximately 6,000 prisoners to mark the country's 77th ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese ... the Japanese government finally surrendered on 14 August 1945. The longest British and Commonwealth Campaign of World War ...