Thursday, December 06, 2007

Burmese Poet Flees to Thai-Burma Border

http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=717

Place names I came across in reading DGE Hall--Mainly a history of the rivalry between the French, the British and the Dutch in S and SE Asia from the 16th century onwards.

I'm only reading the reigns of Naresuan,his brother Ekathasarot and his great grandson Narai-- Narai was very progressive and sent the ...