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Lochaber No More
The Cameron Highlanders honour their Kohima dead with scholarships. Full Story with photographs
Carrying out the Core Business of KET
Graham Spearing travels to Kohima for the scholarship awards and visits the orphanage. Full Story with photographs
67th Anniversary of the Battle of Kohima
28th April 2011 saw the gathering of Veterans prepared to make the trip again to York to celebrate the 67th Anniversary of the Battle of Kohima. Full Story with photographs
Plaque Unveliled for Lt John Young
On the morning of the 30th of March 2011 The Lord Provost of Glasgow unveiled a granite pavement plaque outside a tenement property in the west end of the city. Full Story with photographs
Visit to Lieutenant General Kotoku Sato’s Tomb and Memorial Shonai-machi, Yamagata Prefecture
Akiko Macdonald is Chair of the Burma Campaign Society and has long felt a need to visit the final resting place of Lt. General Kotoku Sato to thank him for leaving the battlefield thereby allowing her father to survive. Full Story with photographs
Naga teacher reports on studies at the University of York
Studying for an MA in Teaching English helps a teacher trainer in Nagaland
Full Story
Visit to Kohima 2010
A small team of British and Gurkhas officers & soldiers visit the Kohima War Cemetery to pay their respects to the fallen.
Full Story
The Pangsha Project
An educational and astonishing trip with the Minister for the Pangsha.
Full Story with photographs
A Modest Ambition
July 2009
Helping a teacher attend a postgraduate course at the University of York so that s/he can return to Nagaland and become more effective at teaching. Full Story
An Absence of Strings
April 2009
A story by the Secretary of KET
Dictionaries for Naga Schools
One of the major projects for the Kohima Educational Trust in 2008 was the provision of a good English language learning dictionary to every secondary school in Nagaland. Full story with photographs
Keith Halnan Medical Library inauguration and Scholarship Awards 2008
The Keith Halnan Medical Library is inaugurated. Presentation by Margaret Halnan of the Scholarship Awards to Nursing Trainees and awards to Scholarship pupils. Full story with photographs
Nagas at the Crossroads
Today, the Nagas are at the crossroads. Editorial from The Morung Express Full story
Crashed Pilot's Gift
Foundations are now being laid for gift of a basketball court. When Ray Jackson baled out of his fighter plane over Japanese occupied territory in 1944, he was rescued, nursed back to health and helped to escape by a Naga... Picture
KES Secretary visits the UK
Kohima Educational Society (KES) Secretary Charles Chasie visited the UK in 2007 and laid a wreath on behalf of the people of Kohima at a Memorial Service in York Minster.
Charles Chasie said: "KES takes this opportunity to express gratitude to KET and all its sponsors and well wishers for their generosity in raising funds and sponsoring the various projects in Nagaland. We offer our prayers and humble thanks to everyone".
Mr Chasie attended the summer meeting of the KET trustees, and reported on all KES activities, including the Pangsha Village proposal with which he has been closely involved.
Kohima Society Formed
Our comrades in Kohima have formed the Kohima Educational Society (KES), a body recognized by the Governments of Nagaland and India. Full story
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