The remains of 106 Tamil laborers who, under Japanese occupation, were forced to work on the "death railway" between Thailand and Myanmar over eight decades ago have been cremated in a Buddhist ...

The Death Railway in Thailand isn’t just a historic site; it’s a poignant reminder of sacrifice, resilience, and a testimony to human endurance. Officially called the Burma Railway, this 415 ...

[Source: The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass] Besides ... [Source: The Indo Project] Accurate estimates of the cost of the Burma Death Railway in terms of human lives are hard to come by ...

The Death Railway line from Ban Pong in Siam (Thailand) to Ye in Burma (Myanmar) was built over 76 years ago by Prisoners of War (PoW) and slave labourers. Besides the Tamils, Chinese and Malays ...

during the construction of the 415km Thailand-Burma Railway, as it was called then, remains largely unseen. The exact number of deaths during the construction of the railway is unknown ...

A court in Singapore held Lee responsible for the deaths of many POWs by forcing them to work at a construction site for the Thai-Burma Railway, also known as the infamous “Death Railway.” ...

NEW DELHI - The death toll in a stampede at the main railway station in India's capital New Delhi rose to at least 18, ...

When British-run Singapore fell to the Japanese in the Second World War, Allied prisoners of war were mobilised to construct the Burma-Thailand railway, known as the “Death Railway”, that ...

A Thai man died after falling from a moving train in Lop Buri. He was a regular traveler with known psychiatric issues.