Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Burmese government's isolated capital -- Naypyidaw --

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/23/asia/myanmar.php

Penguins and white tigers while the people starve.

Oh--my big mistake--The White Countess was written by Nobel Laureate

Kazao Ishiguru, whom I met once at a book signing in Philadelphia, way back in the 1990s. And it's not Liam Neeson--it's Ralph Fien...