Teresa Heinz

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

Difference between Haitian and Chilean earthquakes and political systems

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100228/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_tale_of_two_quakes

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html

Monks etc aided by Oscars

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9958507

Environmental artist -- Andy Goldsworthy --

http://www.ecosalon.com/andy-goldsworthys-amazing-works-of-art/

Portrait artist Chuck Close

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

Re-posting -- Kyi May Kaung's Blotches from Burma art show -- 2005

http://www.voanews.com/burmese/archive/2005-10/2005-10-23-voa1.cfm

Burmese junta opening ports to private sector

http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews&articleid=7760227&subject=economic&action=article

Liquid sculpture of Martin Waugh --

http://www.liquidsculpture.com/the_artist.htm

Warning -- graphic content -- women who tried suicide by fire in Afghanistan --

so far there have been over 250.

http://www.rawa.org/self_immolation/index.htm


What would make a woman, taught to treasure her own beauty, to mutilate herself this way --

Kyi May Kaung

All Burma Monks' Alliance needs your help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiDITQ_P_cQ

Shepheard Fairey's Burmese Monk bid now at $8000 and rising

http://www.charitybuzz.com/auctions/theartofelysium/catalog_items/113013

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/02/shepard-fairey-puts-services-up-for-auction.html

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/et-la-0323-fairey-pg,0,6592906.photogallery

Illegal (Burmese) migrants whipped in Malaysia.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17891


As early as 1994, a waiter in a Burmese restaurant in USA told me about being whipped in Singapore for overstaying his visa.

Kyi May Kaung

Excellent cartoon -- Gen Than Shwe sells Burma's Independence to China

http://www.irrawaddy.org/cartoon.php?art_id=17793

Artist, costume designer Eiko Ishioka

http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1992/?id=217

Child of Argentine disappeared reunited with father

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Francisco-Madariaga-Quintela-center-welcomed-father-Abel-Pedro-Madariaga-and/photo//100223/481/a295b9aef7ab47f68d6eb709e2bb246c//s:/ap/lt_argentina_dirty_war_children

Circus volunteers come to Burmese refugee camp school in Thailand --

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17884

http://www.irrawaddy.org/multimedia_index2.php


Reminds me of time I took my child to FAO Schwartz in NY, where an actress dressed as a doll and standing like a doll winked at us.

This is a small bright spot in dark Burma picture. Thanks for writing this.

I'd love to be linked to this circus.

Please request them to leave a message on my blog, which can by found by Googling my full name.

Here is famous Cirque Du Soleil

http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/kooza/default.aspx

Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)

Photo essay -- Library of Congress -- all images copyright Kyi May Kaung

Detail -- Neptune Fountain -- Library of Congress,Washington, DC. Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.



Jefferson Building -- Library of Congress, Washington DC -- copyright Kyi May Kaung



Library of Congress -- Main Hall ceiling -- copyright Kyi May Kaung




Library of Congress -- ceiling detail -- Copyright Kyi May Kaung

Photo essay -- Snow -- all images copyright Kyi May Kaung

Black snow and hydrant -- Copyright Kyi May Kaung




Snow Mountain -- copyright Kyi May Kaung

Photo competition for 4th world entrepreneurs --

http://www.sevenfund.org/entrepreneur-image/

Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- new translation of The Little Prince.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry

For me at least, passes the test of "made me cry three times."

Much more moving than the version I have read previously, and more lyrical.

Kyi May Kaung

Obama and The Dalai Lama - Obama Ole

http://www.irrawaddy.org/cartoon.php?art_id=17841

See also Larry King Live, yesterday, on CNN

Beautiful interview in which His Holiness spoke of "not calling for Tibetan independence" but for a middle way.

His holiness also spoke about Haiti and said self-discipline was for oneself when King asked about Tiger Woods "practicing infidelity."

He called Larry King "Harry."

Kyi May Kaung.

The Nation -- Burmese Tricks Continued --

http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=10173&sec=3

600,000 to go through Andy Warhol's boxes --

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/19/naked-jacqueline-onassis-_n_262822.html

Alaungsithu's prayer -- translated by Gordon H. Luce.

Thus, in an inscription in the Shwegu Temple, we find this beautiful prayer, written in Pali verse, by King Alaungsithu (1112-1167):

By this my gift, whatever boon I seek,
It is the best of boons to profit all;
By this abundant merit I desire
Here or hereafter no angelic pomp
Of Brahmas, Suras, Maras; nor the state
And splendors of a monarch; nay, not even
To be the pupil of a conqueror.
But I would build a causeway sheer athwart
The river of Samsara, and all folk
Would speed across thereby until they reach
The Blessed City. I myself would cross,
And drag the drowning over. Aye, myself
Tamed, I would tame the willful; comforted,
Comfort the timid; wakened, wake the asleep;
Cool, cool the burning; freed, set free the bound.

From a 1950s Atlantic Monthly article by "Thawka" also known as Zawgyi or U Thein Han, renowned poet.

Behind those odd looking green Winter Olympics bouquets --

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/There-s-quite-a-story-behind-the-Olympic-flowers?urn=oly,220230

Excellent annotated Orwell collection -- from Brown Univ.

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/libs/hay/collections/orwell/leab.html

Quote from U Tin Oo of the NLD - who was released last week -

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Even if I lost the sight in both of my eyes, I would continue in politics until Burma gained democracy.

— Tin Oo, NLD vice-chairman.

From The Irrawaddy news magazine.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

http://www.abakanowicz.art.pl/about/-about.php

found object sculpture -- eggshell dress

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/arts/x552268461/Natick-artist-fashions-found-objects-into-sculpture

Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint L'ouverture -

http://www.jacoblawrencecollection.com/documents/40.html

Bringing the lion king to life --

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/arts/design/29glue.html

The poetry and sculpture of Patty McPhee

http://www.pattymcpheeartist.com/clay_sculpture.html

Andrew Selth on state of Burma Studies --

Outline of Senior General on Parade -- copyright Kyi May Kaung


http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7179712


I agree with him completely and have been saying the same thing for years (at least since 1995,) so good to be cited.

Kyi May Kaung

Interview of Dr. Zarni of LSE regarding Burmese junta's sentencing of 4 dissidents

on same day as arrival of UN Human Rights Rapporteur Tomas Quintana.

http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_single_mediaplayer/0,,5250650_type_audio_struct_12758_contentId_5250683,00.html

Myitsone Dam at confluence of Mai Kha and Mali Kha, (source of Irrawaddy River) will lead to problems

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/global-green/100127/burma-dam?page=0,0

James Nachtwey's Witness site --

http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/

Award-winning photo journalist James Nachtwey on Burma in Time --

James Nachtwey is a noted photographer of war and was recalled from the war zone in Sept 2001 to photograph 9/11 damage at Ground Zero in NY.

Kyi May Kaung

Resist Inc. -- Resist Illegal "authority."

http://www.resistinc.org/contactus.html

Late Howard Zinn was on Resist board.

Happy Chinese New Year -- Year of the Tiger --

My Chinese New Year Offering -- copyright Kyi May Kaung


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

Alexander McQueen's show stoppers --

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionpicturegalleries/7214180/A-history-of-catwalk-collections-by-designer-Alexander-McQueen.html?image=3

Rangoon's crumbling buildings

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703630404575052492220690762.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Burmese literary community in crisis

http://www.mizzima.com/edop/interview/3425-burmas-literary-community-in-crisis.html

2007 panel -- Is US Losing Primacy -- Carnegie Institute

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/2007_JFC_Panel_1_Transcript1.pdf

Painting Chinese style --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwKJ-DTvNzI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMdTrcfBpBI&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_JPnUAwAZQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8OPG3BJWGU&feature=channel

Brush calligraphy demonstration --

http://www.artbabble.org/video/hirokazu-kosaka-calligraphy-demonstration

Chinese and Japanese Art -- inclduing Qi Baishi's Crabs -- at UMUC

http://www.umuc.edu/art/china/index.shtml

US says sentencing US citizen to 3 years with hard labor by Burmese junta may lead to increased sanctions

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17787

Preah Vihear Temple on Thai-Cambodian border.

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

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/preah_vihear_cambodia.htm

Irrawaddy cartoon, Minefields, not our problem.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/cartoon.php?art_id=17769

On Thai authorities planned forced repatriation of Karen refugees into war zone in Burma.

Pariah and rogue states, Chomsky, Orwell Prize.

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


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

http://www.theorwellprize.co.uk/life-and-work/media.aspx?category=1748&item=1773

Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/jebsencenter/topics-archive-text.shtml

Excellent travel site - Razzle Dazzle

http://gotouring.com/razzledazzle/journal/archive.html

Get your cash and credit card and go.

Putting their lives on the line for an additional $10 per month.

http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/3501-workers-strike-spreads-in-industrial-zone-in-rangoon-riot-police-deployed.html

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/9/worldupdates/2010-02-09T155941Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-460220-1&sec=Worldupdates

Temples in the dust in Bagan, Burma.

http://www.asianewsnet.net/contact.php

Photo - Dr.Kaung's book shelf --

Dr. Kaung's Book Shelf -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung

plumeria

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/bridges/plumeria/plumeria.htm

Anderson Cooper interviews Larry King - about suspenders, etc.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/23/larry.king.interview/index.html