The experiences of soldiers who became prisoners in the Far East during World War Two are the subject of a new museum ...
And so it was decided that a railway connecting Thailand and Burma would be constructed through dense tropical jungle over hilly terrain with hundreds of rivers, including the Kwae Noi River ...
The Death Railway line from Ban Pong in Siam (Thailand) to Ye in Burma (Myanmar) was built over 76 years ago by Prisoners of War (PoW) and slave labourers. Besides the Tamils, Chinese and Malays ...
Seventy-five years ago, in June 1942, the Japanese Occupation Army commissioned the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway that later gained its infamous name, the Death Railway.
The potential Delhi-Singapore rail network is now closer to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious new vision for trade in the region—and Myanmar can act as a pivot for India’s integration ...