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 ...

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 ...

We get an update on “the darkest hour of need” for the Burmese people, from Maung Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist, ...

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

As the road shook beneath him, Ko Zeyer sped past crumbled buildings, buckled roads and gaping sinkholes toward his hometown ...

The quake struck Friday, followed by several aftershocks. It toppled buildings, buckled roads and caused bridges to collapse.

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Certain essential utilities have been nationalized—railways, river transport ... with Japanese reparation receipts and foreign loans. Burma needs to have this level of investment sustained ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hidden in the colonial history of Burma is the remarkable tale of James Howard Williams and the elephants he cared for—with ...