And so it was decided that a railway connecting Thailand and Burma would be constructed through ... rice doesn’t provide much energy for men building a railway by hand in jungle heat, and ...

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.

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 ...

PETALING JAYA: It is high time the international community gives due recognition to the Asian forced labourers of the Thai-Burma Death ... contribution in building the railway stretching 415km ...

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 ...

TASS/. Russian companies are ready to participate in building new railway lines in Thailand and also supply rolling stocks, Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov told a bilateral ...