And so it was decided that a railway connecting Thailand and Burma would be constructed through ... the former Dutch East Indies colony of Java (now Indonesia). He had spent his early years ...

Schoolchildren sang Happy Birthday to Mr Jennings when he turned 103 A former soldier thought to be the last surviving veteran of the infamous Burma Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings was ...

Captured in 1942, he was among thousands of prisoners forced by the Japanese to build the railway between what is now Thailand and Myanmar. Paying tribute, his granddaughter Carolyn Heath ...

State railway workers were among the earliest organized ... DVB, Khit Thit Media, Myanmar Now and 7Day News--had been canceled. All five had been offering extensive coverage of the protests.