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 ...

With many areas hit by Friday’s earthquake still not reached by rescue crews, those numbers are still expected to rise.

In 1943 Burma, leaders of the Air Commandos—(from ... then found the only place nearby where a light airplane could land: a sandbar on a river. But the injured men could not reach the river ...

Meri, co-founder of the Collaborate Burma Foundation, arrived 16 years ago in Mae Sot, a town nestled in the jungle of ...

We get an update on “the darkest hour of need” for the Burmese people, from Maung Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Burma Friday, leaving at least 2,700 dead ...

But it's less a river than a test of faith ... generals who in 1989 changed the name of the former British colony from Burma to Myanmar, a version of its precolonial name. In 1990, Suu Kyi's ...

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit the heart of war-ravaged Myanmar of Friday, killing scores of people and prompting the country ...

Topography influenced the planning and conduct of the campaign in Burma to a greater extent than in any other theater of war. The Japanese, in their central position, had good road, rail and river ...

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On their way to the river they almost bring down Burma’s power supply, encounter the world’s least relaxing truck stop, race around the streets of a deserted capital, saddle up a trio of ...