ONE of the last World War II Chindits, Pte Charlie Richards, has died, age 104. His passing leaves Sid Machin, 101, of ...
PHILADELPHIA — The remains of a Philadelphia native killed on a bombing mission over Burma during World War II were identified late last year, nearly 80 years after his death, the Defense POW/MIA ...
* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. (WNN) NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: On a cold January day in 2001, 18 year old Naang Yin (all names in this ...
The sound of mortars and artillery shells is a constant across Burma’s ethnic states, and after nearly 80 years of war, the people have learned to endure. They can now gauge the distance of incoming ...
The harrowing story of one of the greatest chapters of World War II---the building and defense of the Burma Road The Burma Road tells the extraordinary story of the China-Burma-India theater of ...
A tribute in Minehead to veterans who fell in the Burma campaign during the Second World War has been restored. The work on the Burma Star War Memorial, sited in Blenheim Gardens, was carried out to ...
Despite a democratic opening and hopes for peace with the ethnic insurgencies in the northern hinterlands, horrific accounts of rights abuses continue to emerge from the multi-sided war over Burma’s ...
On a hill within an internally displaced people’s camp in Burma’s Karenni State, a solitary cross, scarred by a recent Burmese army airstrike, stands adjacent to a damaged Catholic church. On Good ...