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

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

Bottom line, Burma's military is at its weakest point yet and 2025 could be a turning point in the war.

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.

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 ...

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

Mountaineer Joe Simpson travels to Myanmar to retrace the steps of his father, who fought behind Japanese lines in WWII, facing conditions which made this one of the toughest campaigns of the war.

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

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 ...

served as a signaller in the Second World War and played an important part in keeping his “wireless village” on the air in the Burma Campaign. In November 1944, Newland was at 14th Army HQ at ...