As Japanese forces crushed Allied fleets in the Pacific, one Dutch ship pulled off the impossible. The crew covered it in trees and paint to resemble a tropical island—then moved only at night. It was ...

The Bridge on the River Kwai: How Hollywood buried the grim truth of the Burma Death Railway A new series, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, is set during the Burma campaign. Will we ever get the ...

Asad Ullah, a 25-year-old Rohingya refugee who fled Myanmar and arrived in Indonesia’s Aceh Province in 2022, died on April 14 at Syafira Hospital in Pekanbaru, Riau Province. He had been suffering ...

SINGAPORE - Myanmar national Piang Ngaih Don spent the last 12 nights of her life tied to a window grille in her employer’s Housing Board flat in Bishan. She slept on a bedroom floor with one arm ...

Since achieving independence from Britain in 1948, Myanmar has experienced the world’s longest running civil war. Despite its exhortations as to being the country’s stabilizer, Myanmar’s military, ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is leaving, and moving the country's capital to the island of Borneo ...

Over the past decade, Chinese infrastructure investments under the umbrella of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Myanmar experienced a rocky history of stops and starts, as have other BRI projects ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Sad news coming out of Vietnam today: the ...