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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Burma is experiencing its most dramatic moment of political change in more than half a century. In November, the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in ...

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 ...

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 ...