Sunday, September 12, 2010

Burmese National League for Democracy's U Win Tin hospitalized.

http://burmatoday.net/news2005/2010/201009/100912_bty_bur_u_%20win_tin.swf

From Burma Today -- in Burmese.

Summary:

Dr. Phyu Phyu Thin says U Win Tin has very bad cough and is being given oxygen, but continues talking to visitors.

He has heart problems and has a pacemaker.

Conn Iggulden is an amazing writer--from Rome, to Genghiz Khan and his descendents, to War of the Roses, to Athens--

he started writing on a borrowed computer in the corridor of his father-in-law's office, and is descended from Irish wandering storytell...