From historic ruins and floating markets to beachside sunsets, these incredible rail adventures are the perfect way to escape ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

An Irish tourist who was born in New Zealand died while trying to take a selfie on Thailand’s “death railway.” Patrick Ward, 45, fell to his death from a moving train in Kanchanaburi province in ...

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 ...

It’s a highly unusual, potentially torturous position: to be left wondering if a character depicted to millions via brilliant ...

Made famous by the film The Bridge over the River Kwai, the Thai-Burma railway that once resulted in the death of thousands could help unite Southeast Asia by 2015. Made famous by the film The Bridge ...