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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

BANGKOK: The Cabinet on Tuesday (Feb 4) approved the 341.35-billion-baht second phase of the Thai-Chinese high-speed train ...