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 ...

Seventy-five years ago, in June 1942, the Japanese Occupation Army commissioned the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway that later gained its infamous name, the Death Railway.

PETALING JAYA: It is high time the international community gives due recognition to the Asian forced labourers of the Thai-Burma Death Railway. Death Railway Interest Group chairman P ...

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 ...

PORT DICKSON, Nov 11 (Bernama) -- K. Arumugam, the oldest survivor of the infamous ‘Death Railway’, a forced labour project ...