The civil war ravaging the Asian country hides that it is the epicenter of heroin production, synthetic drug trafficking, and ...

In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel ...

Japan will mark the 80th anniversary of its surrender in World War II on Aug 15. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Amid ongoing junta bombardments of civilians in northern Shan State, TNLA negotiators fly to Kunming for talks with the ...

A new five-part adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel gives an unsparing account of life as a prisoner ...

Most of them went home during the war, and immigration has now been stopped, but there are still an estimated 700,000 Indian aliens in Burma, where their influence in the commercial sphere it very ...

Burma is a long-forgotten battleground for religious freedom and human rights in Asia, and its turmoil is part of a broader struggle in the region.

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese ... The longest British and Commonwealth Campaign of World War Two was over.

Jacob Elordi hit the Berlin Festival on Saturday with Justin Kurzel’s WWII drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North, in which ...

Jacob Elordi revealed that he had to lose weight to play a prisoner of war in the new Justin Kurzel-directed series “The ...