railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma. It was built from 1940 to 1943 by Southeast Asian civilians abducted and forced to work by the Japanese and a smaller group of captured ...

SEREMBAN, Nov 10 — The oldest surviving worker of the infamous ‘Death Railway’ between Thailand and Myanmar, Arumugam Kandasamy, died at 3.26 am today at the age of 97. His son, A Sudhagaran, 45, said ...

KUCHING: A full investigation must be conducted on the RM207bil compensation money paid to the Malaysian Government for citizens forced to work on the infamous Thailand-Burma “Death Railway ...

Their capture three months later and the fate of what became the “Lost Battalion” became one of the most harrowing stories of Texas troops during World War II. Their initial voyage in late ...

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.

Explore Thailand's must-visit museums, showcasing history, culture, and art through unique exhibits and architecture.

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Discussions during the first phase centred on China's request for the Allies to launch amphibious operations in the Bay of Bengal, to coincide with its intervention in the Burma campaign.

No, he is not related to Larry Goodman, the mighty beef baron from Dundalk. John Goodman is proud to confirm that he is ...

A police escort has safely seen New Zealand’s only elephant Burma to the airport for her flight to her new “forever home” in Adelaide. Forty-two-year-old Burma left Auckland Zoo this morning.

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 ...

The construction of the Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway and the Siam–Burma Railway, claimed the lives of many Allied prisoners of war during the Second World War. The POWs were forced ...