Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Strand Hotel in Rangoon -- phew!

http://www.thestar.com/travel/asiapacific/article/804591--yangon-s-the-strand-is-still-a-grande-old-dame

Might meet a junta plant "monk" in the men's rest room, as a western reporter did during the Saffron Reviolution in Sept 2007.

Myanmar Junta election official killed in Magwe ambush.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-election-inspector-killed-in-magwe-ambush.html