Chiangmai Chronicle

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Outdoors/6825/archive/cc.html

Golden Horse Monastery Thailand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNfFJaJRSn8

DC cherry blossoms and support for Japan

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110327/lf_afp/japandisasterussociety_20110327225848

2010 Nobel Literature Laureate - Mario Vargas Llosa

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

Twin boys have a ta ta ta conversation -

http://shine.yahoo.com/event/momentsofmotherhood/twin-baby-boys-have-a-conversation-2469953/

My translation:

Why the hell did you establish a no fly zone in Libya and then transfer control to NATO,

I told you NATO would do nothing.

I don't know, ask NATO.

Why are you conducting a war by channel TV?

I don't know ask NATO.

Why is China not helping finance the air strikes?

I don't know ask China.

Eat my foot.

Informal translation by Kyi May Kaung who grew up in Burma speaking ta ta ta language.

Ancient Christian book, the size of a credit card, found in Jordan -

http://us.mc1620.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=1&.tm=1301572508&.rand=f8iij8b23bg42

Kyi May Kaung's poem Mother Rape translated into Burmese by Kay

http://kyimaykaungburmese.blogspot.com/

Photos copyright Kyi May Kaung

Youngest Gaddafi son's US internship etc -

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/until-uprising-gadhafis-son-was-on-u-s-internship

Burmese mission to court of Qianlong Emperor - palm leaf ms

http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs5/SBBR6-2008Kaung.pdf

Taunton School in Somerset UK where my father went -

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

Kyi May Kaung

Re-posting - Kyi May Kaung: Activist, Artist and Poet in Exile by Wendy Fulton Steginsky in Wild River Review -

http://www.wildriverreview.com/4/profile_kaung.php

Lotusland - Santa Barbara - California - USA

http://www.lotusland.org/

Burma earthquake - Al Jazeera report from Mae Sai, Thailand -

http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=burma+earthquake

The film about Burmese comedian Tweazers or Zarganar, who is serving 35!! years in a Burmese prison -

http://thisprisonwhereilive.co.uk/index.php?l=1&s=10

American Ballet Theater's Sarah Lane says Natalie Portman role as a dancer was exaggerated, and her contribution as dance double not acknowledged -

http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/1000-natalie-portman-slammed-by-her-black-swan-dance-double

Choreographer is now Portman's fiance?husband and they are expecting a child.

Images from earthquake in Tachilek, Burma

Tachilek is opposite Mae Sai, the most northern part of Thailand to the east.

All photos Copyright Sai Oot.

From the late Fred Halliday - in Open Democracy - London School of Economics' link to Gaddafi Foundation -

http://www.opendemocracy.net/fred-halliday/memorandum-to-lse-council-on-accepting-grant-from-qaddafi-foundation

Fun for today - How to eat fresh fruits -

Zee byu thee tree in Thailand - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung. Zee byu thee are astringent at first, then grow sweeter in the mouth.



如何吃鲜果？How to eat fresh fruits?
Eat before meal, not together with food or after meal.
Eat fresh! and not preserved + packed one!
Eat the whole, not only dringing juice!

From Burma Chinese email

Actress Elizabeth Taylor dies of heart failure -

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110323/ap_en_ot/us_obit_taylor

Time magazine - Why is Sr. Gen. Than Shwe of Burma wearing women's clothes?

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053563,00.html

Meanwhile in Brazil the Obamas --

http://mrs-o.org/newdata/?currentPage=3

"Burma Plate" - excerpt from Anderson Cooper's memoir -

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/22/cooper.book.excerpt/index.html

European arms sales to Libya

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/03/02/european-arms-sales-to-libya-in-figures/

Libya oil

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/8395181/Libya-oil-facts-and-figures.html

Libya intervention could last awhile -

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_libya

You can now read Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame on line in its entirety -

http://www.online-literature.com/victor_hugo/hunchback_notre_dame/2/

So do read it - he researched it carefully before he wrote.

Kyi May Kaung

Real life Quasimodo found in Tate archives

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/artsandentertainmentbooksreview/7945634/Real-life-Quasimodo-uncovered-in-Tate-archives.html

Real life hunch-backed sculptor may have inspired Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame -

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables - 1962

http://hugo-online.org/works/novels/1862-les-miserables/

It took him 17 years to write and he wrote most of it in exile from France on the Channel Island of Jersey.

http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/victor-hugo.htm

Victor Hugo

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

Les Miserables 25th anniversary -

http://www.lesmis.com/about/the-story-act-2/

Victor Hugo's classic set to music --

The Libyan war of 2011 - by George Friendman in Stratfor.com

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110319-libyan-war-2011?utm_source=SpecialReport&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110319a&utm_content=readmore&elq=39e055ce4aca40e28485c5e33f27d225

www.stratfor.com allows re-publishing on blogs with attribution.

From March 8, 2011 - Gaddafi said to have looked for escape hatch

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/gadaffi-looking-for-deal-to-exit-libya-90231

Gadafi vows long war as US and other allies strike

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_libya

First wave of allied assaults - 112 cruise missiles hit Gadaffi targets

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_libya

Gadaffi is going down, but he has attacked Benghazi already.

French jets over Benghazi

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110319/ap_on_re_af/af_libya

Where Bangkok people buy their clothes

http://www.cnngo.com/bangkok/shop/photo-gallery-bangkok-street-style-845833

Libya - What ceasefire? Government forces still pounding Misrata

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/18/libya.civil.war/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Libya says it will release 4 arrested NYTs journalists

http://www.courant.com/news/breaking/hc-ny-times-journalists-libya-0318,0,5723800.story

Libya declares cease fire as international forces prepare to move in after UN declaration of no-fly zone -

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110318/ap_on_re_af/af_libya

Libyan foreign minister is now talking "dialogue."

Petition for donation of former Rangoon US Embassy - to be donated to Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy

Aung San Suu Kyi in Bath? UK - in days before 1988 - from her supporter on Internet.

Our Petition
is now at 73 signatures. Please help us reach our goal of 1000 signatures.

52 Merchant Street , Rangoon, is former US Embassy, that State Dept. is trying to sell.

See note

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/donate-52-merchant-st-rangoon-to-nldaung-san-suu-kyi/

or maybe you know someone who is a millionaire and can buy it for the National League for Democracy.

Thank you everyone who signed.

You need not use your real name or email address.

Kyi May Kaung

Experts help Burma rebrand its dictatorship by Dr Zarni -

Dead Duck - photo - copyright Kyi May Kaung

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20944

Typo missed by Irrawaddy editors -

Burma is not a "failed dictatorship"

it's a "successful dictatorship" that maximizes the state's power and perpetuates itself.

It's a failed state that does not do what it should do -

for example, protect its people from harm.

Kyi May Kaung

National Geographic photographer - Reza -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwQK0XitQg&feature=bf_next&list=PLF9937335E603C887&index=14

Picasso, most expensive painting ever sold -

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Pablo-Picasso39s-1932-39Nude-Green-Leaves-and-Bust39-seen-Christie39s/photo//110307/ids_photos_ts/r3102622269.jpg//s:/nm/20110307/lf_nm_life/us_picasso_tate#photoViewer=/110307/ids_photos_ts/r3102622269.jpg

Internally displaced inside Burma -

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/168308.html

Tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi and Panel on Gandhi's Non-Violent Social Change, Burma, Iran and the Middle East. Make sense of what you see on TV -

Free or not free? Oil on canvas portrait of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, painted in 2008, painting and photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.


http://neiuevents.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/non-violent-social-change-a-major-conference-at-neiu-march-10-11-2011/

Northeastern Illinois University,
Chicago, IL

Friday 11th March


10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Student Union Building, room 214



The Gandhian Method of Non-Violence Struggle and Its Applicability to Burma , Iran & Middle East



Moderator & Panelist:

Maura Stephens, Associate Director, Park Center for Independent Media, and Adjunct Journalism Faculty, Ithaca College; Independent Journalist and Humanitarian; and Former Senior Policy Adviser, International Campaign for Freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma



Panelists:



Mark Mattaini, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago



Cyrus Bina, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota , Morris



Kyi May Kaung, Senior Researcher, VAHU Research & Member, Technical Advisory Network, NCGUB (Burmese Democratic Government in Exile)



Further info: Dr Hamid Akbari


http://www.neiu.edu/neiu_experts/Experts_Bios/Hamid_Akbari.html

Maura Stephens

Dr Kyi May Kaung - leave message with interview request in subject line as comment on this blog.
Please be short and to the point - no links in comments or message will be marked as spam.

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Ross Dunkley - formerly of Myanmar Times - follow up

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/burmese-regime-certain-to-have-last-word-on-trailblazing-newspaperman/story-e6frg6so-1226013844561

Do It Yourself (DIY) writing retreat tips, books.

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs016/1101860524916/archive/1104612723976.html