Amid the ongoing civil war and turmoil in Burma, also known as Myanmar, the military-controlled government proudly unveiled a new massive sitting Buddha statue on Friday. The statue, scheduled to be ...
MUMBAI (IANS) – Amitabh Bachchan shared an anecdote about the veteran actress Helen and talked about how she had escaped from the Japanese occupation of Burma in 1943, during World War 2, and came to ...
PHILADELPHIA — The remains of a Philadelphia native killed on a bombing mission over Burma during World War II were identified late last year, nearly 80 years after his death, the Defense POW/MIA ...
The sound of mortars and artillery shells is a constant across Burma’s ethnic states, and after nearly 80 years of war, the people have learned to endure. They can now gauge the distance of incoming ...
Thailand plans to open a humanitarian corridor within a month to deliver aid to suffering civilians in war-torn Burma. The plan initially targets a small proportion of the 2.6 million displaced ...
BANGKOK -- A human-rights group and 16 people from Burma have filed a criminal complaint in Germany seeking punishment of the country's generals for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity ...
Many students and graduates of Denison University in Granville, Ohio, have served in the armed forces since the school’s beginnings. One of these was Chester L. Klein Sr. who graduated in 1920. Born ...
Brent Sadler is a senior fellow for naval warfare and advanced technology at The Heritage Foundation. Jack Erickson is a former member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. As war ...
Syracuse, N.Y. — Judith Par-Lwei was 10 when she and her family fled their home country of Burma. It was 2008. Hundreds of villages had been destroyed by Burmese military. Much of the population fled ...
On a hill within an internally displaced people’s camp in Burma’s Karenni State, a solitary cross, scarred by a recent Burmese army airstrike, stands adjacent to a damaged Catholic church. On Good ...
Just before noon on a Tuesday in February 1944, First Lt. John J. Heffernan Jr. died as his B-25G bomber was struck by Japanese gunfire over a river in Burma and tumbled nose-over-tail into a nearby ...