In the waters outside the harbor of Rangoon, loaded ships lay at anchor. Out at sea other Rangoon-bound vessels got orders to alter course. Along Strand Road, Rangoon’s wharfside thoroughfare, ...

The 1956 Japanese film “The Burmese Harp” tells the story of a Japanese infantry unit in Burma (now Myanmar) at the tail end of World War II, and in its meticulous storytelling it achieves a form of ...

KAYAH — A black beret, an unkept beard, a tattoo with the peace symbol on his arm and, right behind him, in a small hut in the heart of the Burmese jungle, a flag with imprinted on it the Pazi symbol ...

To the list of World War II specialists in close combat—Edson’s and Carlson’s Marine Raiders, British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate’s Raiders, Mountbatten’s Commandos, U.S. Army Rangers—another was ...

An oil painting from 1944 by Captain Hugh Micklem, who served in Burma, shows troops of the Royal West African Frontier Force receiving supplies by parachute - National Army Museum If you walk up ...

CAMP EITUTA, Burma -- -- CAMP EITUTA, Burma -- In a burgeoning encampment here on Burma's eastern frontier, Hay Nay Tha, a 30-year-old mother of three, awakens in the darkness most nights to the sound ...

TOKYO - A batch of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables released this week lend details to long-suspected nuclear cooperation between North Korea and Burma, suggesting that hundreds of North Koreans were at ...

Most airmen rarely saw the magnificent landscape of the Himalayan mountains, for by ill fate the route also passed through the worst weather system for aviation in the world - Mondadori Portfolio ...

The regime has waged a relentless campaign of attacks on schools and other civilian targets in resistance-held territory ...