The jungle is silent. I'm asleep, cocooned in a mosquito net on the floor of a wooden pagoda. Beneath me lies a steep hill which conceals a secret frontline hospital in Myanmar. "We have ...

Mountaineer Joe Simpson travels to Myanmar to retrace the steps of his father, who fought behind Japanese lines in WWII, facing conditions which made this one of the toughest campaigns of the war.

However, it said the Myanmar military manufactured its own landmines ... student and anti-coup protester, trained under a jungle medic and now educates rural communities on first aid and landmine ...

The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them. Sliney threw himself in front of the ...