NAM TOK, Thailand – Wielding a machete, Rod Beattie slashes at tangled undergrowth and soaring bamboo to expose vistas from one of World War II's iconic sagas. Out of the jungle appear remnants of a ...

A slow journey by local train along one of the world’s most haunted railways, where history, memory, and landscape converge.

In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel, ...

Jacob Elordi hit the Berlin Festival on Saturday with Justin Kurzel’s WWII drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North, in which he plays a medical officer in a Japanese prisoner of war camp on the ...

A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...

TOKYO: During World War II, the Japanese military constructed the Thai-Burma Railway connecting Thailand and Burma, now Myanmar. While the section in Thailand has become a tourist destination ...

NAM TOK, Thailand (AP) — Wielding a machete, Rod Beattie slashes at tangled undergrowth and soaring bamboo to expose vistas from one of World War II’s iconic sagas. Out of the jungle appear remnants ...

Casey Barnett, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (AmCham), has warned that Thailand is repeating a ...

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...

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