Between sugar cane and rice in the valleys and terraced pineapple and tea plantations on the hills, the Old Burma Road winds through this remote part of Asia where ancient and modern China have ...

Selangor Nanyang Drivers and Mechanics World War II Monument Photo: Courtesy of Yong Pock Yau. Silently standing at the Kwong ...

One of the most intractable issues on Washington's foreign policy agenda is figuring out how to induce Burma's harsh military junta to respect the ...

So the Burmese must depend on inefficient gas generators, imported, of course, down the Burma Road from China. In a country rich in energy resources, power outages are a fact of life, and the hum ...

The Chinese started building the last, and most difficult, link in the Burma road in December 1937. It is now completed. It follows the old trail which Marco Polo traveled when he visited the Middle ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. It's time for Beijing to withdraw its blanket diplomatic support for this brutal regime. Chinese embassies and consulates from New York to New Zealand ...

More than 1,100 American troops died building the road in what is now Myanmar. Today China and some in India see the long-neglected route as their lifeline.

Mr. Webster talked about his book, [The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II], published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. He read several passages from the book ...

Last week, as he hustled to Clipper home from China, where Harry Hopkins had dispatched him (at $1 a year) to pep up lend-lease traffic on the fabled Burma Road, Speedster Arnstein had again done ...

There s only one land route from Mandalay to China: via a pocked, crowded, dusty road that snakes its way over misty hills and down through treacherous river valleys before finally reaching ...