Additional American personnel such as Paul Stevenson accepted commissions with the United States Public Health Service and were sent to assist with malaria control during the construction effort.
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:A railway, starting from Mandalay, goes north-east to the bank of the Salwin which is to be crossed at Kunlong Ferry in latitude 23 degrees 20', whence, if ever built, it is to be taken north in Chinese territory and run parallel with the prevailing strike of the mountains, due north to Tali-fu; but this line will pass through a wild thinly-peopled country and it is doubtful if a private company will be found to build it.
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An article by Royal Arch Gunnison published in the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday, November 27, 1941 stated that American Engineers still expected "12 to 15 months to complete" the railway and described a Dr. Victor Haas of the United States Public Health Service as in charge of sanitation and malaria prevention.
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In 1938, Edward Michael Law-Yone travelled to Yunnan from his native Burma to see the proposed route.
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The VNQDĐ had run a military academy in Yunnan near the Chinese border with the assistance of their nationalist Chinese counterparts, the Kuomintang.
Abies chensiensis, the Shensi fir, is a fir native to Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan in China and Arunachal Pradesh in India.
Abies fabri is closely related to Abies delavayi and Abies forrestii, which replace it to the south and southwest respectively in southern Sichuan and Yunnan, and to Abies fargesii, which replaces it further north in Gansu.
Eventually, the airfield work was completed, and in September 1942, A Force was shipped to Thanbyuzayat to start work on the Burma-Thailand Railway.
Lu Hao-tung's "Blue Sky with a White Sun" flag was used in the provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, while the "18-Star Flag", "Five-Colored Flag", and other designs were used elsewhere.
The Buyang people may have originally migrated to their present locations in Yunnan and Guangxi from Guizhou province in the north, which is now occupied by the Gelao people.
Camellia reticulata, a plant species native to southwestern China, in the Yunnan Province
China National Highway 214 (G214) runs from Xining, Qinghai to Jinghong, Yunnan.
Chuxiong City (楚雄市), prefecture seat of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in Yunnan, China
Colquhounia elegans (秀丽火把花, xiu li huo ba hua) is a shrub species in the genus Colquhounia found in Asia (Yunnan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam).
The common slug snake (Pareas monticola) is a species of snake found in Northeast India (Sikkim, Assam, Darjeeling; Arunachal Pradesh (Mokto - Tawang district)), Vietnam, and Southwest China (Tibet, Yunnan).
Iaroslav Lebedynsky and Victor Mair speculate that some Scythians may also have migrated to the area of Yunnan in southern China following their expulsion by the Yuezhi in the 2nd century BC.
Engleromyces sinensis is known only from China, including its type location in Yunnan, China, in Yulong County.
On January 31, 1687, he was elected Vicar Apostolic of the provinces of Guangdong, Yunnan, and Guangxi.
Gao Yan (politician), politician of the People's Republic of China, Secretary of the CPC Yunnan Committee
Glandular horned toad or Jingdong spadefoot toad (Xenophrys glandulosa) is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family found in Yunnan in China, in Nagaland in northeastern India, and in northern Kachin State, Myanmar.
For example, Colonial French and English had been active at sites in neighbouring northern Laos, Vietnam and Burma, and even inside of modern Yunnan at sites like Tengchong and Gejiu.
In fact, he had been taken prisoner by the Japanese and remained a prisoner of war at the Changi Prison until 1945, working on the construction of the Burma Railway which crossed Thailand, a feat that inspired the Pierre Boulle book 'Bridge Over the River Kwai', and the film adaptation by David Lean.
People believed to have come from South Yunnan region migrated into the northern tip of Java during a time when Jepara was still separated by the Juwana Strait.
Blofeld became a pupil of Hsu Yun but actually received training in Chan (Zen) meditation from Hsu Yun's pupils at a monastery near Kunming, Yunnan.
During World War II, his father was made to work on the infamous Burma Railway in Thailand, while John with his mother and three brothers were prisoners of war in Malang, Surakarta and Ambarawa.
Tibetans who live in the historic region of Kham which covers parts of modern Qinghai, Western Sichuan, Northern Yunnan and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Speakers are officially part of the Yi nationality, and Chinese linguists refer to it as "Western Yi" due to its distribution in western Yunnan.
The second son was Chet Chieng, who founded Chieng Kwang, or Puan ; the third son was Ti-Palan, who founded Laksa Kuha, or Yunan.
The eight seasons were divided by the Second World War, in which he was a prisoner of war in the Far East and worked on the Burma-Siam railway.
In August 2011 he was appointed Acting Governor of Yunnan, succeeding Qin Guangrong, who was promoted to Communist Party Chief of the province.
Ludian County (鲁甸), in Zhaotong, Yunnan, People's Republic of China (PRC)
Lugu Lake, on the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, China
Among the members of this set of parallel clockwise moving faults are the Jinghong Fault stretching from Kengtung, Myanmar to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, the Nan Ma Fault, Muang Houn Fault, and Dien Bien Phu Fault.
After the monarchy was overthrown and rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty in 1368, Mao Taihua married a woman in Yunnan, in 1380 bringing her to Hunan, settling in Xiangxiang county.
Examples of matrilocal societies include the people of Ngazidja, the Ancient Pueblo Peoples of Chaco Canyon, the Nair community in Kerala in South India, the Moso of Yunnan and Sichuan in southwestern China, the Siraya of Taiwan, and the Minangkabau of western Sumatra.
Most of this comes from Glamorgan in Wales (Morganucodon watsoni), but fossils have also been found in the Yunnan Province in China (Morganucodon oehleri), in various parts of Europe and North America and some at least closely related animals (Megazostrodon) are known from exquisite fossils from South Africa.
The northern section of Điện Biên Province borders the province of Yunnan in China and the entire Western border of the province is shared with the Phongsali province of Laos.
Among the Nakhi in Yongning County in Yunnan and the Yanyuan County in Sichuan, existing remnants of the Mosuo matriarchal family structure which were vigorously but unsuccessfully eradicated during the Communist era.
Lieutenant General Inada was still opposed, but put forward to Kunomura and Major Iwaichi Fujiwara (one of Mutaguchi's staff officers) the apparently frivolous idea of attacking into the Chinese province of Yunnan instead.
The dominant group in the villages were the Panthay, chiefly Hui migrants from Dali, Baoshan, Shanning, Menghua and elsewhere in southern and western Yunnan.
Bassein and Moulmein must also have attracted some Panthay settlement, the latter port being a terminus of the overland caravan trade from Yunnan in its own right, via the northern Thai trade route through Kengtung, Chiang Mai and Mae Sariang.
Burma Railway - a railway connecting Thailand and Burma constructed by the Japanese using POW labor during World War II
However, after several weeks of evasion, around 4 March 1942 he was captured by the Japanese on Java and sent to work on the Burma Railway.
Shuifu County (Chinese: 水富县; Pinyin: Shuǐfù Xiàn) is a county under the jurisdiction of Zhaotong Prefecture-level City located on the boundary of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, and it is on the side of Jinsha River.
This is mainly because many Xiang-speaking immigrants from Hunan moved to Sichuan during the great wave of immigration during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so Xiang does not have such a close relationship with other southwestern varieties of Chinese, such as those spoken in Yunnan, Guangxi or Hubei.
The oil and natural gas pipelines will run in parallel and start near Kyaukphyu, run through Mandalay, Lashio, and Muse in Burma before entering China at the border city of Ruili in Yunnan province.
Sinosaurosphargis is an extinct genus of non-sauropterygian marine reptile known from the lower Middle Triassic (Pelsonian substage, Anisian stage) of Yangmazhai, Luoping County of Yunnan Province, southwestern China.
Trachycarpus princeps, a palm species endemic to Yunnan in southern central China
In 1948 and 1949 Father Edgar Oehler, a catholic priest working for the Fu Jen Catholic University at Beijing, excavated fossils near the village of Da Di in Yunnan.
The French post at Tuyên Quang (Sino-Vietnamese: 宣光) was defended for four months against 12,000 troops of the Yunnan Army and the Black Flag Army by two companies of the French Foreign Legion during the Sino-French War (August 1884 to April 1885).
Some members went back to Vietnam while others stayed in the border provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi along the Chinese border with Vietnam.
The president of Yunnan University had a PhD from the Sorbonne.
When the Mengzi–Hekou Railway is completed, trains from Kunming, Yunnan's provincial capital, will be able to travel on standard gauge rail to Hekou, on the border with Vietnam.