The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma ...

Definately a must see to make you think and reflect.” The Thailand-Burma Railway Centre in Kanchanaburi tells the story of the railway built during World War II by Allied prisoners of war and forced ...

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 ...

China wants to use private security contractors to protect its investment projects in the war-ravaged country.

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 ...

A court in Singapore held Lee responsible for the deaths of many POWs by forcing them to work at a construction site for the Thai-Burma Railway, also known as the infamous “Death Railway.” ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced that China and Thailand should accelerate the construction of the China-Thailand Railway and expand cooperation in emerging fields such as new energy, ...

With the roar of the whistle, a Harmony train loaded with "Made in Anning" departed from Anning North Port, Kunming International Dry Port, China, delivered the goods to Bangkok, Thailand via the ...

Thailand’s proposed “Associations and Foundations” legislation threatens civil society organizations (CSOs) and media exiles from Myanmar based in the previously tolerant kingdom, according to rights ...

Of all the Thailand landmarks, the Bridge Over the River Kwai is the one that will remind you most of the horrors of World War II. The famous iron bridge was part of the Death Railway to Burma built ...

Credit: Hitachi Rail. Hitachi Rail has secured contracts to implement European Train Control System (ETCS) digital signalling on two railway lines in Thailand. Both contracts were finalised with South ...