YANGON: From February 2021 to May 25, 2025, over a span of more than four years, there have been 82 incidents of mine attacks on railway tracks and station areas, and 176 incidents of mine explosions ...

TONY EASTLEY: The Australian prisoners of war who survived building the Thai-Burma railway rarely discuss the full horror of what they endured. But a group of 60 veterans recently agreed to tell at ...

YANGON (Eleven Media Group/ANN): On the morning of March 10, a mine attack occurred on the Yangon-Mandalay railway section between Minsu and Kyaukse stations in Kyaukse Township, Mandalay Region. The ...

The number of surviving Australian prisoners of war who were used as slaves on the Thai-Burma railway in World War II is dwindling. As Anzac Day approaches this year, a new book has been released ...

Albert Slaughter was born in Ashington Northumberland on 17th February 1919. He started work aged just 14 at North Seaton Colliery. At 20 years Albert joined the regular army and reached the rank of ...

The Thai Prime Minister hopes to resurrect the notorious Death Railway as a tourist train across the Three Pagodas Pass, some six decades after Allied prisoners of war completed this short-lived ...