They made a good couple, the two adjacent bridges straddling a broad span of the Songkhalia River. The Mon bridge was a tall wooden structure, a jumble of sturdy logs and planks, riding high above the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Best Time to Visit: Kitulgalal is one of Sri Lanka’s most wet areas, but the driest time typically falls between January to March ...

With a near-perfect score on the review site Rotten Tomatoes, even modern-day viewers agree that this 1950s film is an ...

For about half the picture, the hero of The Bridge on the River Kwai is a British Colonel (Alec Guiness) whose depth of courage and sense of duty is at once touching, magnificent, and comic. Part of ...

Tell us about this hotel. The Float House aims to be the world’s best floating resort, and it could well succeed. One hour from the river town of Kanchanaburi, three hours from Bangkok, and only ...

Kanchanaburi, the charming provincial capital, is located just 140km northwest of Bangkok. While it serves as an ideal getaway at the junction of the Kwai Noi and Kwai Yai rivers, and surrounded by ...

In 1942, the Japanese army began construction of a railway linking Thailand and Burma, an seemingly impossible endeavor given the miles of overgrown jungle and treacherous mountains it would need to ...

Set-up: This disturbing second world war epic is a British production directed by famous filmmaker David Lean. The screenplay was based on a novel by French writer Pierre Boule. The characters and the ...