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.

Pentagon to fire 5,400 employees--backlash builds

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-musk-slashing-government-draws-backlash-even-among-some-republicans-2025-02-21/