It was on the night of the 3rd and 4th December, 1944, that General Slim ordered the 11th Division to establish a bridgehead across the River Chindwin. This was ‘softened-up’ by artillery and R.A.F.

As we scramble up the muddy bank of western Burma’s Chindwin River, a group of farmers stops unloading bananas from ox carts on to an open wooden boat to watch our erratic progress, and a small ...

Scientists have rebuilt the population of Burmese roofed turtles to nearly 1,000 individuals and counting. Villagers lined up on the Chindwin River to release turtles. There is much scientists have ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We reached the confluence of the two rivers in the evening, six hours after leaving Mandalay. Downstream stretched ...