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 ...

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 ...

This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile-long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its ...

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 between Siam (Thailand) and Burma (Myanmar) during World War Two, who died ...

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.