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 ...

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 ...

The Death Railway line from Ban Pong in Siam (Thailand) to Ye in Burma (Myanmar) was built over 76 years ago by Prisoners of War (PoW) and slave labourers. Besides the Tamils, Chinese and Malays ...

Mr Jennings received a guard of honour by the Royal British Legion at the service The funeral of Jack Jennings, thought to be the last surviving veteran of the infamous Burma Railway, has taken place.

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 ...

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