Junta troops torch homes after fighting erupts at a village strategically located halfway between Sagaing town and the pilgrimage site of Mingun on the Irrawaddy River.

Both countries are predominantly agricultural, with rice farming and fishing as primary occupations. The rivers in each ...

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 ...

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 ...