The jungle is silent. I'm asleep, cocooned in a mosquito net on the floor of a wooden pagoda. Beneath me lies a steep hill which conceals a secret frontline hospital in Myanmar. "We have ...

Mountaineer Joe Simpson travels to Myanmar to retrace the steps of his father, who fought behind Japanese lines in WWII, facing conditions which made this one of the toughest campaigns of the war.

Bangkok, June 4, 2021 (AFP) - Nervous laughter breaks out in Myanmar's eastern jungle as a young man training to overthrow the junta is knocked backwards by the kick of a rifle he has just fired ...