A new book highlights the role that the country's rail network has played in the making – and unmaking – of a conflict-torn country. Commerce may be booming, but the pace of transport ...

Japan is withdrawing its official development assistance (ODA) for a key railway project in Myanmar that has stood as a symbol of cooperation between the two countries for the past 10 years. The ...

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 ...

The Death Railway in Thailand, also known as the Burma Railway, was built during World War II by the Japanese. It stands as a ...

And so it was decided that a railway connecting Thailand and Burma would be constructed through dense tropical jungle over hilly terrain with hundreds of rivers, including the Kwae Noi River ...

Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, immortalised in the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai, which cost the lives of more than 100,000 prisoners. Jennings died ...

On Chinese social media, there is a growing call for a thorough crackdown on telecom fraud. What are the challenges in ...