Friday, November 30, 2012

Brutal crackdown on monks and workers/miners protesting Chinese-owned copper mines in central Burma

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/20111 (Foreign) commentators on the Irrawaddy site don't seem to understand there are thousands of monks in Burma, and these are different from the neo-Nazi skin heads who spout racist sentiments in Arakan against the Rohingya.

BBC--Thorny (Customs) Hedge of India--really fascinating--

I think I know this plum--called Hpan Thee (slightly) bitter fruit. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-...