Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack Jennings signed up as a private in the 1st Battalion of the Cambridgeshire Regiment to fight in the Second World War A ...

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...

Myanmar's railway stations are bustling with life as surging fuel prices due to the Mideast war drive commuters to choose ...

Jack Jennings, who has died aged 104, spent three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war and worked as a slave labourer on the Siam-Burma “Death Railway”; he was thought to be the last ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...

Police sealed off the Mingalar Taung Nyunt neighbourhood in Yangon. Myanmar security forces raided a neighbourhood in the country’s largest city that is home to state railway workers who have gone on ...

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

The Ministry of Rail Transport is reviewing the Memorandum of Understanding it had signed with China for the construction of a $20 billion railway project between Myanmar and China as it was "not ...