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

In 2024, resistance forces captured 91 towns and key military bases, pushing the junta into retreat. Who's fighting? The Myanmar military or the Tatmadaw. The ruling junta, led by General Min Aung ...

The impressive collection included the Distinguished Flying Cross, the 1939-1945 Star, the Atlantic Star, the Burma Star, the Defence Medal, the War Medal, the Coronation Medal and the 2nd Class ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1823 war threatened between the Kingdom of Burma and Britain. Fearing the worst, the government of Lord Liverpool consulted the Duke of Wellington as to who would be the best man to command in a ...

Battle of the Coral Sea: In the first Japanese defeat of the war, American forces sink a Japanese carrier and badly damage two others heading for New Guinea. Japan completes capture of Burma and ...

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

This film records the Japanese militarys efforts to capture the Burma Roadone of the major supply lines to China from the British beginning in December 1941 The film ends with the fall of Mandalay ...

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.