The Death Railway in Thailand, also known as the Burma Railway, was built during World War II by the Japanese. It stands as a ...

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 ...

BANGKOK: The Malaysians and Indians in Bangkok (MIB) has announced plans to cremate the remains of 106 Tamil Romusha workers ...

At least 106 skeletal remains (out of 500 initially found) of Tamil labourers and Allied prisoners of war who died during the ...

during the construction of the 415km Thailand-Burma Railway, as it was called then, remains largely unseen. The exact number of deaths during the construction of the railway is unknown ...

In 2003, he opened the Thailand-Burma Railway Center in Kanchanaburi, both a research facility and a superb museum incorporating some of the thousands of artifacts he had uncovered. Although ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...

The Malaysians and Indians in Bangkok (MIB) has announced plans to cremate the remains of 106 Tamil Romusha workers currently ...

Jack Jennings was among 60,000 Allied prisoners forced by the Japanese to build a railway between Thailand and Myanmar, then Burma from 1942 to 1943. In his final weeks at a Torquay care home ...

He was put to work with thousands of others on the Burma-Thailand railway, a line which was central to the plot of The Bridge on the River Kwai, in which Allied operatives seek to blow up a ...

"Question 7" is a work of art skeptical of art's ability to fairly represent the world.