The 'Death Railway' between Thailand and Burma claimed 1.25 lakh lives during World War II, as Japan forced 2,40,000 ...

By Philippa Tracy Australian writer Richard Flanagan’s book won the Booker Prize in 2014 and was this summer screened as five ...

Unearthed documents and local sources have revealed that the family of missing South Australian boy Gus Lamont has a ...

Agonising hell. These are the only two words that can describe the horror inflicted on Indian soldiers, leading to thousands ...

Family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeat the hoisting of the National Flag from Red Fort on October 21 to mark the establishment of the ...

1887 The Star newspaper’s birthday. It appears for the first time in Johannesburg as The Eastern Star after beginning life in ...

A diehard socialist with no military experience wasn't expected to be up to the job of wartime prime minister, yet he turned ...

During the Pacific War, the Japanese military constructed the Thai-Burma Railway connecting Thailand and Burma, now Myanmar.

Police and authorities have diverted traffic away from Jalan Burma from both directions from Jalan Penang. (H’ng Mooi Lye pic) Authorities have cordoned off Jalan Burma in George Town, Penang, after ...

GEORGE TOWN: The sinkhole that appeared on Jalan Burma Road here near the Transfer Road intersection has been traced to a leaking sewage pipe. In a statement, the Penang Island City Council (MBPP) ...

IN the context of the brutal conflict fought in Burma during the Second World War it was small beer. But from little victories do greater victories come although such lofty pronouncements must have ...