Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Chiangmai -- without the hassle of the open red taxis and tuk tuk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiangmai

Some familiar scenes.

The late Leo Nichols--I met him and his wife once at a dinner party for "Timber friends." I left Burma in 1980s and heard of his death while working at RFA.

AI Overview The Danish (and Norwegian, Finnish, Swiss) honorary consul in Burma (Myanmar) during the 1990s who was arrested and died in pri...