Monica Yunus - opera singer and daughter of Mohammad Yunus

http://www.monicayunus.com/

Back door to Machu Picchu

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/travel/in-peru-machu-picchu-and-its-sibling-incan-ruins-along-the-way.html?src=me&ref=general

Old age in America - flash fiction by Bobbie Troy

http://cavalcadeofstars.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/bobbie-troy/#comment-391

Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei released after 3 months

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21549

Comment by Kyi May Kaung, left on Asian Sentinel on "rising kyat"

As Dr. Sean Turnell pointed out, the $ is falling so the kyat "rises".

The $ is falling because of the USA's three trillion dollar and counting war expenditures - and that is only the middle figure of the estimate that Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz and his co-writer Linda Bilmes made a few years ago.

See my review of Stiglitz and Bilmes' book The Three Trillion Dollar War.

http://www.fpif.org/articles/review_the_three_trillion_dollar_war


Kyi May Kaung

Monroe pics found at garage sale

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-28/entertainment/marilyn.monroe.mystery_1_unpublished-photos-garage-sale-negatives?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ

White House menu for Hu Jintao in winter -

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/china-state-dinner-white-house-menu-hu-jintao-full-menu-2749132.html

Movie The Majestic - about House Un-American Activities Committee and communist witchhunts of 1950s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Majestic_%28film%29

Ferenc Mate - winemaker, vineyard owner, sailor, writer, photographer etc

http://www.ferencmate.com/

Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress fetches $ 5.6m

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/06/19/hollywood.auction/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Marilyn Monroe

Burma, China, Tibet, Richard Gere etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPEnWFf2J2Y&feature=relmfu

Burmese language radio overseas - BBC will shut down 5 languages for 54 m

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/BBC-to-Shut-Down-5-Language-Services-114608894.html

http://www.mizzima.com/news/world/4338-suu-kyi-concerned-as-bbc-burmese-risks-being-dropped.html

VOA also plans to cut its Chinese service.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19422

lead and arsenic found in Burmese "medicines"

http://myanmathadin.com/news/health/163-lead-arsenic-in-burmese-medicines.html

re-posting - Kyi May Kaung's article "Out of Burma" on Burmese (prison) literature

hthttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giftp://www.fpif.org/articles/out_of_burma

First published in Foreign Policy in Focus.

Leeds Castle in Kent, UK

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

Antonia Fraser's writing room -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/mar/16/writers.rooms.antonia.fraser

Burmese in Burma wearing Don't mess with Texas sign

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_wrath_of_khan/5830350252/

poetry post - Rodney Jones - The Art of Heaven

http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php?file=jones_r.php&utm_source=mag_preview&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=summer11

The Disappearing Duchess - Gainsborough's portrait of Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire -

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/31/magazine/the-disappearing-duchess.html?pagewanted=3&src=pm

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

Everywhere mothers weep for wars -

http://www.peacexpeace.org/2011/04/in-celebration-of-national-poetry-month-welcome/

Fort Wayne, Indiana Burmese learn about discrimination -

http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110610/NEWS/106100320

Gary Locke

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

Prince Philip - unsung hero or bigot turns 90

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/06/10/uk.prince.philip/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Burma must allow political space for Aung San Suu Kyi - by Zin Linn

http://asiancorrespondent.com/56696/burma-must-allow-political-space-for-aung-san-suu-kyi/

The Burmese king Kyansittha

http://www.myanmar-image.com/myanmar/history/Kyansittha/

Beikthano (Vishnu City) in Burma

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Culture/beikthano.htm

Chris Hodros, photographer, who was killed in April in Misrata, Libya

http://www.vqronline.org/blog/

The Blue Jay

http:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jay

Burma - Kachin Independence Army

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/02/the_center_cannot_hold

Libyan multiple rape victim Eman al-Obeidy deported back from Qater to Benghazi, Libya- may have been beaten before deportation

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/06/03/libya.rape.case/index.html?

Qater seems in cahoots with Libya -

UNHCR has no power to save this woman who deserves peace.

Dr Death - Jack Kervorkian dies at 83

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/03/report-dr-jack-kevorkian-dead/?hpt=hp_t2

But did not seek assisted suicide himself.

Pakistani journalist killed -

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/06/01/pakistan.journalist.tribute/index.html?&hpt=hp_c2

Nobel laureate Arthur Lewis - economist and present Chinese growth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lewis_%28economist%29#See_also

AIDS story -

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/06/01/scruggs.hiv.aids/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Tree of Life - Brad Pitt with 50s haircut

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/01/tree.of.life.goodman/index.html

An Indian, originally from Burma, goes back to visit -

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110529/Plus/plus_16.html

Pigeon in Prison - lovely story by Ko Bo Kyi of AAPPB - Association for Assistance of Political Prisoners, Burma

http://www.irrawaddy.org/opinion_story.php?art_id=21403

Cell phones may cause brain tumors

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/index.html?hpt=hp_t2