Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look ...

Part one WE recently commemorated the “Araw ng Kagitingan” (Day of Valor) on April 9. Previously called the “Fall of Bataan,” ...

I n 1884, the first correlation between beriberi and a dietary factor was made by Takaki Kanehiro, a Japanese Naval doctor.

Australians were held on Hainan, an island off the south coast of China, where they were used as slave labour, and at Ambon in Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies) where prisoners died in ...

Nobody could have suspected that it would end in extermination camps.” Those were the words of Jo Spier, a 24-year-old ...

Dutch colonialism in what is now Indonesia dates back to the 1600s ... introduced the so-called ethical policy in the Dutch East Indies. This was essentially the Dutch version of the “white ...

The former Black Cat had been serving in the Far East but ... in modern day Indonesia shortly before the Japanese forces occupied what was then known as the Dutch East Indies.

Hot on the heels of the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end, best-selling author Phil Craig’s new book offers a powerful and original retelling of how the war’s closing chapters reshaped the future ...