FT.com / World - Ghost road to boost India-China trade

Overgrown and disused for much of the last 60 years, a ghost road that connects India to China via Burma will soon reappear on maps of the region.

Dismissed by Winston Churchill as a "laborious task, unlikely to be finished until the need for it has passed", the construction of the road claimed the lives of 1,100 US servicemen and many more local labourers during the second world war.