TOKYO: During World War II, the Japanese military constructed the Thai-Burma Railway connecting Thailand and Burma, now Myanmar.

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Errol Flynn was best known for playing romantic swashbucklers in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and his charisma extended beyond the silver screen, as he was a well-known womanizer. A 1942 ...

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Bertil Lintner reviews new books about U Thant, the Burmese schoolmaster who helmed the UN during its heyday, and about Vladimir Putin’s desperate attempts to find support in the East.

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In 1945, after the war ended, Seethalakshmi Achi, the widow of a Nattukottai Chettiar moneylender whose firm had operations ...

In the Mirror's brand new YouTube series Island of Strangers, Real Britain's Ros Wynne Jones meets the community leader ...