An invasion of Taiwan by China today would face similar challenges that caused the US to drop the idea during WWII. The ...

A Buddhist priest who was drafted by the Japanese military and endured horrendous conditions, including witnessing the deaths of many compatriots, while detained in a Soviet internment camp near the ...

Born on February 28, 1912, in Ukhrul, Manipur, Major Bob was a Tangkhul Naga who did his schooling at Primary Ukhrul Mission ...

A South Pacific island is offering America the deal of the century. Is Washington listening? The post Bougainville: The world’s next new country? appeared first on The World from PRX.

In the denouement of World War II, American and Soviet forces scrambled ... a way to combat North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Minh guerillas operating in the thick jungle environment.

while pressing their claims to most of the rest of the South China Sea. Manila’s only response was to ground a rusting World War II naval vessel on Ayungin shoal in the Spratly Islands ...

North Korea has emerged as an increasingly valuable partner to the United States' leading adversaries, including Russia and Iran, as they engage in conflicts with nations backed by the U.S. and its ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will unveil a statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and inaugurate a museum dedicated to Major ...

If we join electoral alliances we will lose our individuality; Alliance in elections tantamounts to suicide – NTK leader ...

while pressing their claims to most of the rest of the South China Sea. Manila’s only response was to ground a rusting World War II naval vessel on Ayungin shoal in the Spratly Islands ...

As torrential monsoon rains give way to the year-end cold season, a central question looms heavily over the war in Myanmar: ...

Namedropping is ostensibly about status; a wall label informs us, in inimitable MONA-style, that “The bloke who owns Mona (let’s just call him David Walsh, because that’s his name) says what he wants ...