http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1900_1999/drawings/dhurandhar/pathan.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1900_1999/drawings/dhurandhar/dhurandhar.html&h=600&w=366&sz=25&tbnid=tlielaFBP2C37M::&tbnh=135&tbnw=82&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpathan&hl=en&usg=__E7evKd35nyXl157jvSF442z-27E=&ei=j0GaSbHNIdKgtwfJmailCw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=7&ct=image&cd=1
19th century colonial water color. Talk of profiling.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Coverage of Freedom and Art -- for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi -- link
Sculpture of Aung San Suu Kyi by McNelis. Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.
One of many prizes Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has won. Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.
http://www.rfa.org/burmese/audio
go to "sound" -- 2-16-09 7 (AM) now (Sunday) at top of list.
Coverage is in 2 parts, teaser near the front and fuller account near middle.
Thank you Kyaw Min Htun -- and all the panelists and event organizers who made this possible.
http://mirca-art.com/beacon.htm
kmk
I've just found an article by famous Burmese poet Zawgyi (U Thein Han) in Atlantic Monthly 1958
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/195802/burma-early-art
It contains the Alaungsithu Sutaung or Alaungsithu Prayer --
from the 11th century, translated by the famous historian Gordon H. Luce.
I have been looking for this prayer for over a decade and so am mighty pleased to have found it.
Kyi May Kaung.
It contains the Alaungsithu Sutaung or Alaungsithu Prayer --
from the 11th century, translated by the famous historian Gordon H. Luce.
I have been looking for this prayer for over a decade and so am mighty pleased to have found it.
Kyi May Kaung.
Racist remark by Myanmar envoy --
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/136440/burma-envoy-raps-ugly-dark-rohingya
Unfortunately this kind of racism and macho-attitudes are not unusual.
Unfortunately this kind of racism and macho-attitudes are not unusual.
Upcoming in March 2009 -- The Past and Future of Revolution(s): A Global Perspective
March 9-12 , 2009 - Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.
For Conference Programs and News , Please Visit the Conference Website:
http://www.neiu.edu/~acdevelo/Revolutions.html
For More Information , please contact:
Yasmin Ranney , Assistant Dean of Academic Development at 773-442-5441; y-ranney@neiu.edu
Hamid Akbari , Conference Organizing Committee at 773-442-6126; hakbari@neiu.edu
For Conference Programs and News , Please Visit the Conference Website:
http://www.neiu.edu/~acdevelo/Revolutions.html
For More Information , please contact:
Yasmin Ranney , Assistant Dean of Academic Development at 773-442-5441; y-ranney@neiu.edu
Hamid Akbari , Conference Organizing Committee at 773-442-6126; hakbari@neiu.edu
RFA coverage of Free Aung San Suu Kyi art event on Saturday Feb 14th --
This evening (Sunday the 15th Feb) at 7:30 PM in ET.
7 AM in Burmese time.
Short news + 5 minute report.
Listen online live at http://www.rfa.org/burmese/audio
7 AM in Burmese time.
Short news + 5 minute report.
Listen online live at http://www.rfa.org/burmese/audio
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Burmese-born poet Kyi May Kaung mentioned in "flaming verse" of Asian Americans --
Lamb bones -- Photograph Copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://www.poetspath.com/exhibits/asiapac.html
Very happy to be "electronically linked" and mentioned on the same page as Thich Nhat Hanh, Kimiko Hahn, Maxine Hong Kingston and All.
It is truly true poetry has a life of its own.
Kyi May Kaung
Feb 12, 2009.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Art event Free Aung San Suu Kyi -- Saturday Feb. 14th -- 4 PM in New York
Burmese dissident Su Su Nway -- now in prison -- Painting -- copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://www.mizzima.com/news/world/1689-international-artists-launch-awareness-drive-for-aung-san-suu-kyi.html
http://mirca-art.com/beacon.htm
http://mirca-art.com/
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Institute of Policy Studies event on War, Memory and Burma, Korea, Laos, Vietnam
Sad Clown, 8 x10" Oil on canvas, Copyright Kyi May Kaung.
"Mirthful paint cannot erase, despair that's written on my face." Bijan C. Bayne.
“War, Memory and Representation in Art:
Burma, Korea, Laos, & Vietnam”
A panel discussion organized by the Institute for Policy Studies, www.ips-dc.org
Date: January 28, 2009
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: DC Peace Mural Exhibition
3336 M Street, NW (Georgetown)
Washington, DC 20007
Type: Forum / Panel discussion (indoors)
Cost: Free
Website: http://www.ips-dc.org/events/1008
Contact: Kathryn Zickuhr, kathryn.zickuhr@gmail.com
Please join Kyi May Kaung, Annabel Park, Channapha Khamvongsa, and Anna
Huong on January 28 inside the Washington DC Peace Mural Exhibition for a
powerful discussion of the representation of conflict and suffering in art, “War,
Memory and Representation in Art: Burma, Korea, Laos, & Vietnam,” led by FPIF
Co-Director Emira Woods.
e panelists, who are artists and social activists from Korea, Laos, Burma, and
Vietnam, will explore the unique ability of art to bring collective experiences of
suffering into the public discourse. eir own experiences and work have touched
deeply on the issues of how, through art, traumatic individual memories can be woven
into a larger context of community grief, reconciliation, and healing.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Laos --
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/26/travel/0126-laos_index.html?th&emc=th
Now doing better than good ole Burma.
Now doing better than good ole Burma.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Burma VJ wins editing award at Sundance.
BURMA VJ won World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at Sundance Festival 2009.
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=evHOl_3wzPA
http://festival. sundance. org/2009/ film_events/ films/burma_ vj
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=evHOl_3wzPA
http://festival. sundance. org/2009/ film_events/ films/burma_ vj
Former E. German and W. German art -- from NYTs
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/arts/design/25fink.html?ref=arts
Make sure you read the interactive too --
of relevance to Burmese artists --
Kyi May Kaung
Make sure you read the interactive too --
of relevance to Burmese artists --
Kyi May Kaung
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Panel on War, Memory and Representation and Art -- in Burma, Korea, Laos and Vietnam. Jan 28, 2009.
“War, Memory and Representation in Art: Burma, Korea, Laos, & Vietnam”
A panel discussion organized by the Institute for Policy Studies
Date: January 28, 2009
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: DC Peace Mural Exhibition
3336 M Street, NW (Georgetown)
Washington, DC 20007
Website: http://www.ips-dc.org/events/1008
Contact: Kathryn Zickuhr, kathryn.zickuhr@gmail.com
Please join us on January 28 at the Washington DC Peace Mural Exhibition for a powerful
discussion of the representation of conflict and suffering in art.
In the forum “War, Memory and Representation in Art: Burma, Korea, Laos, & Vietnam,”
panelists Kyi May Kaung, Annabel Park, Channapha Khamvongsa, and Anna Huong will explore
the unique ability of art to bring collective experiences of suffering into the public discourse. e
discussion will be moderated by FPIF Co-Director Emira Woods.
e panelists’ own experiences and work have touched deeply on the relationship between art and
social justice. In her work with Legacies of War, Channapha found that “the integration of
storytelling, art, and performance are critical in breaking the silence” that surrounded wartime
experiences. rough art, traumatic individual memories can be woven into a larger context of
community grief, reconciliation, and healing. “e acknowledgement of a shared journey and
struggle could lead to collective strength and power,” Channapha says.
Such memories of conflict and suffering are not confined to the past, but resonate with current
events. In 1991, when the first Iraq War began, Huong says, “I came face to face with the memory of
the war and my demons. e numbed grief inside leaked out. e memories poured out and ached
within me.” Huong responded to this “call to action” with her famous Peace Mural, where the
discussion will take place. e mural includes nearly 2000 paintings, and when fully presented,
stands eight feet tall and 600 feet long. e exhibit runs until January 30.
About the panelists:
• Artist and researcher Kyi May Kaung was born in Rangoon, Burma where she was an Associate
Professor of Economics from 1978 to 1988. Her Ph.D. dissertation, from the University of
Pennsylvania, is on the erosion of human rights and the devastating effects of central control in
Burma. She is based in Washington DC and is now an independent scholar, writer, and artist. Since
1997, she has worked in international radio, and with e Burma Fund as a Senior Researcher. An
interview Kyi May conducted with Huong at FPIF can be found here.
• Filmmaker and activist Annabel Park emigrated to the US when she was nine years old. She is
known for her innovative work combining new media and grassroots organizing. In 2007, she was
the national coordinator for 121 Coalition and organized the historic grassroots-netroots lobbying
campaign to successfully pass House Resolution 121, the "comfort women" resolution addressing the
issue of girls and women trafficked into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII.
• Channapha Khamvongsa, co-founder and executive director of Legacies of War, was born in
Vientiane, Laos. In 1979, at the age of 6, her family fled Laos to Nong Khai refugee camp in
ailand. Her family eventually immigrated to the United States in 1980. In 2004, Ms.
Khamvongsa co-founded Legacies of War, which uses art, culture, education, community organizing,
and dialogue to bring people together and create healing and transformation out of the wreckage of
war. Channapha formerly worked in the Peace and Social Justice Unit of the Ford Foundation and is
a current board member of the Mine Advisory Group - America.
• For more than 30 years, Huong has communicated her message for peace as an artist, former
journalist, mother, Vietnam War refugee and fervent social activist. Huong was a 25-year-old mother
and Vietnamese journalist when she escaped her war-torn country in 1975 on the eve before the fall
of Saigon, catching one of the last refugee life boats and wearing only one shoe while clutching her
infant son. She soon embarked upon a journey that took her to Guam, then to California, and
finally to Alaska, where she turned to art. Nearly 15 years in the making, Huong’s Peace Mural is the
culmination of searing memories that bring history to life and depict the universal pain of war and
hope for peace.
Moderator: Emira Woods, Co-Director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies,
is an expert in U.S.–Africa relations. Prior to joining the IPS staff, Emira was Program Manager for
the Committee on Development Policy and Practice at InterAction, serving as a principle staff
contact for advocacy at the UN, the international financial institutions, USAID, and Treasury.
Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is a think tank for research, analysis, and action that brings together 600 scholars,
advocates, and activists who strive to make the United States a more responsible global partner. e Institute for
Policy Studies is a multi-issue research center that has transformed ideas into action for peace, justice, and the
environment for over four decades.
A panel discussion organized by the Institute for Policy Studies
Date: January 28, 2009
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: DC Peace Mural Exhibition
3336 M Street, NW (Georgetown)
Washington, DC 20007
Website: http://www.ips-dc.org/events/1008
Contact: Kathryn Zickuhr, kathryn.zickuhr@gmail.com
Please join us on January 28 at the Washington DC Peace Mural Exhibition for a powerful
discussion of the representation of conflict and suffering in art.
In the forum “War, Memory and Representation in Art: Burma, Korea, Laos, & Vietnam,”
panelists Kyi May Kaung, Annabel Park, Channapha Khamvongsa, and Anna Huong will explore
the unique ability of art to bring collective experiences of suffering into the public discourse. e
discussion will be moderated by FPIF Co-Director Emira Woods.
e panelists’ own experiences and work have touched deeply on the relationship between art and
social justice. In her work with Legacies of War, Channapha found that “the integration of
storytelling, art, and performance are critical in breaking the silence” that surrounded wartime
experiences. rough art, traumatic individual memories can be woven into a larger context of
community grief, reconciliation, and healing. “e acknowledgement of a shared journey and
struggle could lead to collective strength and power,” Channapha says.
Such memories of conflict and suffering are not confined to the past, but resonate with current
events. In 1991, when the first Iraq War began, Huong says, “I came face to face with the memory of
the war and my demons. e numbed grief inside leaked out. e memories poured out and ached
within me.” Huong responded to this “call to action” with her famous Peace Mural, where the
discussion will take place. e mural includes nearly 2000 paintings, and when fully presented,
stands eight feet tall and 600 feet long. e exhibit runs until January 30.
About the panelists:
• Artist and researcher Kyi May Kaung was born in Rangoon, Burma where she was an Associate
Professor of Economics from 1978 to 1988. Her Ph.D. dissertation, from the University of
Pennsylvania, is on the erosion of human rights and the devastating effects of central control in
Burma. She is based in Washington DC and is now an independent scholar, writer, and artist. Since
1997, she has worked in international radio, and with e Burma Fund as a Senior Researcher. An
interview Kyi May conducted with Huong at FPIF can be found here.
• Filmmaker and activist Annabel Park emigrated to the US when she was nine years old. She is
known for her innovative work combining new media and grassroots organizing. In 2007, she was
the national coordinator for 121 Coalition and organized the historic grassroots-netroots lobbying
campaign to successfully pass House Resolution 121, the "comfort women" resolution addressing the
issue of girls and women trafficked into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII.
• Channapha Khamvongsa, co-founder and executive director of Legacies of War, was born in
Vientiane, Laos. In 1979, at the age of 6, her family fled Laos to Nong Khai refugee camp in
ailand. Her family eventually immigrated to the United States in 1980. In 2004, Ms.
Khamvongsa co-founded Legacies of War, which uses art, culture, education, community organizing,
and dialogue to bring people together and create healing and transformation out of the wreckage of
war. Channapha formerly worked in the Peace and Social Justice Unit of the Ford Foundation and is
a current board member of the Mine Advisory Group - America.
• For more than 30 years, Huong has communicated her message for peace as an artist, former
journalist, mother, Vietnam War refugee and fervent social activist. Huong was a 25-year-old mother
and Vietnamese journalist when she escaped her war-torn country in 1975 on the eve before the fall
of Saigon, catching one of the last refugee life boats and wearing only one shoe while clutching her
infant son. She soon embarked upon a journey that took her to Guam, then to California, and
finally to Alaska, where she turned to art. Nearly 15 years in the making, Huong’s Peace Mural is the
culmination of searing memories that bring history to life and depict the universal pain of war and
hope for peace.
Moderator: Emira Woods, Co-Director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies,
is an expert in U.S.–Africa relations. Prior to joining the IPS staff, Emira was Program Manager for
the Committee on Development Policy and Practice at InterAction, serving as a principle staff
contact for advocacy at the UN, the international financial institutions, USAID, and Treasury.
Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is a think tank for research, analysis, and action that brings together 600 scholars,
advocates, and activists who strive to make the United States a more responsible global partner. e Institute for
Policy Studies is a multi-issue research center that has transformed ideas into action for peace, justice, and the
environment for over four decades.
Fat lady sings and looks beautiful -- Aretha Franklin --sings My Country Tis of Thee --
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/22/lkl.aretha.franklin/index.html
Love the hat, the big grey coat, the pearldrop earrings.
Love the hat, the big grey coat, the pearldrop earrings.
Former Rangoon University -- literally falling apart --
Those who destroy higher education destroy themselves.
http://moemaka.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3128&Itemid=1
How bloody awful -- talk about the destruction of higher education in Burma.
These pictures say it all, don't they.
I'm so glad at least I can see Chiangmai University in Northern Thailand about twice a year in its teak forest and with flowering trees depending on the season.
Last year I saw a beautiful ngu zat (pink cassia).
My friends Kyaw Aung Lwin and Kaythwe Khine started Moe Ma Kha (Don't kowtow to the sky), then went on to work in international radio.
Kyaw Aung Lwin is the excellent poet Maru. But they only appear once a year. I'm still using lunch box she gave me last summer, to pack chinpaun (fried rosselle leaves) in. This was before my old frig was replaced, so sea food I bought at waterfront went bad.
I translated a poem of the late Naing Win Swe that features the Moe Ma Kha plant(sort of a water weed in Moeii or Thaung Yin River).
Naing Win Swe was a communist in the jungle and his poem is about how the revolutionaries tortured each other, (near) drowning each other in the river as punishment -- a sort of water boarding -- it was the first poem I broadcast in 1997, and won me an immediate poetry audience inside Burma.
Yesterday I went to see Defiance, about Polish Jews hiding in forest, staring Daniel Craig and another actor, who were both speaking Polish sometimes in the movie, maybe not that well, my Polish is not good enough for me to tell, but his "Polish accented" English sounded very real.
I was in Poland in 1969-70 for eight months, mostly over the winter. Spring barely started in May.
Copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://moemaka.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3128&Itemid=1
How bloody awful -- talk about the destruction of higher education in Burma.
These pictures say it all, don't they.
I'm so glad at least I can see Chiangmai University in Northern Thailand about twice a year in its teak forest and with flowering trees depending on the season.
Last year I saw a beautiful ngu zat (pink cassia).
My friends Kyaw Aung Lwin and Kaythwe Khine started Moe Ma Kha (Don't kowtow to the sky), then went on to work in international radio.
Kyaw Aung Lwin is the excellent poet Maru. But they only appear once a year. I'm still using lunch box she gave me last summer, to pack chinpaun (fried rosselle leaves) in. This was before my old frig was replaced, so sea food I bought at waterfront went bad.
I translated a poem of the late Naing Win Swe that features the Moe Ma Kha plant(sort of a water weed in Moeii or Thaung Yin River).
Naing Win Swe was a communist in the jungle and his poem is about how the revolutionaries tortured each other, (near) drowning each other in the river as punishment -- a sort of water boarding -- it was the first poem I broadcast in 1997, and won me an immediate poetry audience inside Burma.
Yesterday I went to see Defiance, about Polish Jews hiding in forest, staring Daniel Craig and another actor, who were both speaking Polish sometimes in the movie, maybe not that well, my Polish is not good enough for me to tell, but his "Polish accented" English sounded very real.
I was in Poland in 1969-70 for eight months, mostly over the winter. Spring barely started in May.
Copyright Kyi May Kaung
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Inaugural Panel sells exclusive TV rights -- from Washington Post --
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/16/AR2009011604921.html
Not so good.
If you can't afford $50 a month for cable, you won't see it.
More from The Huffington Post -- from a woman who tried to find it as it was happening live.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-brison/the-audacity-of-the-presi_b_158963.html
Finally I've found a U Tube from The American Prospect site -- watch it fast --
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=01&year=2009&base_name=in_defense_of_pete_seeger
Not so good.
If you can't afford $50 a month for cable, you won't see it.
More from The Huffington Post -- from a woman who tried to find it as it was happening live.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-brison/the-audacity-of-the-presi_b_158963.html
Finally I've found a U Tube from The American Prospect site -- watch it fast --
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=01&year=2009&base_name=in_defense_of_pete_seeger
Let Freedom Ring -- Obama Inaugural Concert Jan 18, 2009 -- sung by Josh Groban and Heather Headly --
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-obama-inaugural-concert-josh-groban-sings-with-the-d-c-gay-mens-chorus/
Archival tape of Marion Anderson, who visited Rangoon, Burma in the U Nu years.
Archival tape of Marion Anderson, who visited Rangoon, Burma in the U Nu years.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Artist Andrew Wyeth dies at 91
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/arts/design/17deba.html?_r=1
So successful he had a private airplane.
Tempera was his medium of choice.
So successful he had a private airplane.
Tempera was his medium of choice.
Did you notice -- hero for Burma, Christopher Gunness, in 1988 famous for his broadcasts from Rangoon --
now at UN in Gaza when Isrealis shelled UN building where refugees had taken refuge.
Way to go Chris, as Americans say.
Kyi May Kaung
Way to go Chris, as Americans say.
Kyi May Kaung
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Kevin Kline in Cyrano on PBS --
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=alR6uERB40G4&refer=muse
A very good translation, I thought, and no wonder -- translation is by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)
It sounds like Shakespeare and totally different from the blah film versions I saw before.
Everything in this production is perfect.
Kyi May Kaung
A very good translation, I thought, and no wonder -- translation is by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)
It sounds like Shakespeare and totally different from the blah film versions I saw before.
Everything in this production is perfect.
Kyi May Kaung
Kyi May Kaung's collages at Suriya Gallery mentioned in Chiangmai Mail.
Bird meets Dolphins -- collage copyright Kyi May Kaung -- photo copyright Marisa Charles.
http://www.chiangmai-mail.com/305/features.shtml#hd2
Chiangmai Mail did not put the artist's names with the paintings. I would have liked to know who painted those beautiful images, especially the ones done with a palette knife.
Thank you Nance, Ko Aung and All who helped me cart pictures back and forth --
It's a great honor to have one's work "hung" with so many brilliant paintings.
Kyi May Kaung
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Keep those beautiful old coats and clothes -- Bill Cunningham from New York Times --
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/04/fashion/20090104-street-feature/index.html?th&emc=th
Only problem -- closet space.
I still have old coat from 20 years ago and it works fine --
one quilted coat I gave away and one (picked from garbage!) -- a good black wool long coat worth about $100, that was too small for me -- I gave both of these to refugees/visitors/interns from Burma.
All a problem of knowing what to throw away and what to keep.
I will never throw away re-cycled wearable art that I make myself from heirloom clothes and linen.
Kyi May Kaung
Only problem -- closet space.
I still have old coat from 20 years ago and it works fine --
one quilted coat I gave away and one (picked from garbage!) -- a good black wool long coat worth about $100, that was too small for me -- I gave both of these to refugees/visitors/interns from Burma.
All a problem of knowing what to throw away and what to keep.
I will never throw away re-cycled wearable art that I make myself from heirloom clothes and linen.
Kyi May Kaung
Another memoir on Oprah Show found to be (partially) made up --
http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=f458c2c8-0d4f-4dc7-8cba-15e465c2201a&p=1
Why was it marketed as a memoir?
Why did he not write it as a novel (fiction)?
Oprah Show and book and film etc audiences also want "memoirs."
Sensationalism is the culprit.
I can think of several examples from the Burmese survivor/media world.
Kyi May Kaung
Why was it marketed as a memoir?
Why did he not write it as a novel (fiction)?
Oprah Show and book and film etc audiences also want "memoirs."
Sensationalism is the culprit.
I can think of several examples from the Burmese survivor/media world.
Kyi May Kaung
Saturday, January 03, 2009
"My skull" will be up at Cranial Vault -- in Feb.
February 2009
February 4 through February 27
Cranial Vault www.cranialvault.org
at Space 7-10 Kefa Cafe
963 Bonifant St. (near corner of Georgia Av. in Silver Spring, MD) a few blocks uphill from Silver Spring Metro.
Kyi May Kaung
February 4 through February 27
Cranial Vault www.cranialvault.org
at Space 7-10 Kefa Cafe
963 Bonifant St. (near corner of Georgia Av. in Silver Spring, MD) a few blocks uphill from Silver Spring Metro.
Kyi May Kaung
Friday, January 02, 2009
Chinese quail farming family become billionaires --- all due to Deng Xiao-ping's 1978 Reforms
Pig Butler at Memphis Airport -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/business/worldbusiness/02yuan.html?th&emc=th
from New York Times.
Additional note:
Deng said:
"It's glorious to get rich."
"If you open the windows, some flies might get in."
and apparently "We must allow some people to get rich first."
Deng's economic reforms of 1978 were accompanied by a downsizing of the People's Liberation Army(PLA)and "a more professional army."
Now that the global economy is in Recession (with a capital R)
China is looking to a new economic model, perhaps led by the domestic market and satisfying its domestic demand from over a billion population. Maybe its industries will have to change its product mixes.
It is also on better terms with India.
I hope it won't draw down or draw out its money in U.S. Treasury Bills, which are now propping up the U.S. government, which is attempting to bail-out or being asked to bail out U.S. industries and financial institutions in trouble.
Food for thought for the New Year.
Notes -- copyright Kyi May Kaung
Paintings by Qi Baishi --
http://www.chinapage.com/qibai/qibai.html
So simple, so direct, so timeless, so beautiful.
Kyi May Kaung
So simple, so direct, so timeless, so beautiful.
Kyi May Kaung
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Beautiful and authentic Qianlong Emperor's Retirement Palace restored in Beijing -- from New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/12/31/arts/design/20090101_FORBIDDEN_index.html
Nothing like the stupid and downright destructive "restorations" done by the junta in Bagan (spelled "Pagan" before) in Burma --
Nothing like the stupid and downright destructive "restorations" done by the junta in Bagan (spelled "Pagan" before) in Burma --
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Possibly re-posting -- but it's so beautiful --
Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qrE_rBrJQ
A kind of natural ikebana or action painting or performance art that is environmentally friendly.
Kyi May Kaung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qrE_rBrJQ
A kind of natural ikebana or action painting or performance art that is environmentally friendly.
Kyi May Kaung
Nobel Laureate -- Playwright Harold Pinter died Christmas Eve --
http://i2.democracynow.org/2008/12/30/harold_pinter_1930_2008_on_art
Here is his 2005 Nobel acceptance speech from Democracy Now.
Here is his 2005 Nobel acceptance speech from Democracy Now.
Burma Activists -- Don't forget these important links --
12-31-08
Two important documents from Dec. 7th 2008 have been leaked to the Democratic Opposition.
Since May and Cyclone Nargis, the number of leaks has increased significantly.
One is a report of the Russian Ambassador to Burma going to meet the Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win.
The other is a report from Kyaw Tint Swe, the Burma Permanent Rep. to the UN in NY to his superiors in Rangoon.
The Russian Ambassador expressed his interest in Russian tourism in Burma and for Russian companies to do business in extracting Burmese resources and Burmese minerals.
These documents say that
i. They would like to keep the Free Suu Kyi and other political issues separate from Mr. Gambari's visits.
ii. They also want to keep Mr. Gambari's and Mr. Ban Ki-moon's visits "separate."
iii. They know that the western nations led by USA and UK are campaigning vigorously for UN to be more effective.
So, Burma Activists -- why should UN reps. go to Burma except to pressure for Democratic Transition and to Free Suu Kyi and others?
So, do keep the pressure up and don't let the junta compartmentalize. Be unified in approach.
Two important documents from Dec. 7th 2008 have been leaked to the Democratic Opposition.
Since May and Cyclone Nargis, the number of leaks has increased significantly.
One is a report of the Russian Ambassador to Burma going to meet the Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win.
The other is a report from Kyaw Tint Swe, the Burma Permanent Rep. to the UN in NY to his superiors in Rangoon.
The Russian Ambassador expressed his interest in Russian tourism in Burma and for Russian companies to do business in extracting Burmese resources and Burmese minerals.
These documents say that
i. They would like to keep the Free Suu Kyi and other political issues separate from Mr. Gambari's visits.
ii. They also want to keep Mr. Gambari's and Mr. Ban Ki-moon's visits "separate."
iii. They know that the western nations led by USA and UK are campaigning vigorously for UN to be more effective.
So, Burma Activists -- why should UN reps. go to Burma except to pressure for Democratic Transition and to Free Suu Kyi and others?
So, do keep the pressure up and don't let the junta compartmentalize. Be unified in approach.
Don't be a Donkey -- New Year Greetings --
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/12/30/kabler.ethiopia.donkey.care.itn
Don't be a Donkey -- don't let yourself be tied up, beaten and driven to exhaustion! Demand to be fed and watered and treated properly. Live long and be healthy.
Kyi May Kaung
Don't be a Donkey -- don't let yourself be tied up, beaten and driven to exhaustion! Demand to be fed and watered and treated properly. Live long and be healthy.
Kyi May Kaung
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
Obama Inauguration -- at the juncture of poetry and politics -- from the New York Times --
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/books/25poet.html?hp
Poet commissioned to write and read poem at Inauguration is a fine poet -- you can see this from her "sample poems."
I am writing, and have written, (prose) for hire, and have so far been "commissioned"(verbally) to write two wedding poems, that the bridal couples liked a lot, and a play.
Subject was not specified. The commissioning theater director liked my poetry.
For the play commission, I was taken to an upscale restaurant in Philadelphia located in a bank vault. Was a lot of fun.
Kyi May Kaung.
Poet commissioned to write and read poem at Inauguration is a fine poet -- you can see this from her "sample poems."
I am writing, and have written, (prose) for hire, and have so far been "commissioned"(verbally) to write two wedding poems, that the bridal couples liked a lot, and a play.
Subject was not specified. The commissioning theater director liked my poetry.
For the play commission, I was taken to an upscale restaurant in Philadelphia located in a bank vault. Was a lot of fun.
Kyi May Kaung.
Chinese pockets filled while Americans' emptied -- from New York Times + Whither Burma??
Lady Vanda -- oil on canvas -- Copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/world/asia/26addiction.html?th&emc=th
Q for economists and others -- where does Burma factor in in all this?
Have this increasing sinking feeling about Burma, what with
1. reduced strength of USA and so of democratic camp
2. SPDC gearing up for their show election of 2010 -- and some countries, especially in Europe, going along with it.
Heard from grapevine that Spain's ambassador went to Rangoon to try and persuade Daw Suu to run for election (again!!!) in 2010.
3. She and NLD are absolutely right -- why should they when 1990 election result, which NLD won by an overwhelming vote, has not been honored yet.
Junta has a history of making people "replay the game" when things don't work out the way they wish it to.
God help us.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Christmas Poem -- Eight Lies of a Mother by Anonymous Burmese Poet --2008
Nice poem -
EIGHT LIES OF A MOTHER~1.The story began when I was a child;I was born as a son of a poor family.Even for eating, we often got lack of food.Whenever the time for eating, mother often gave me her portion of rice.While she was removing her rice into my bowl,she would say "Eat this rice, son. I'm not hungry".
That was Mother's First Lie
2.When I was getting to grow up,the persevering mother gave her spare time for fishing in a river near our house,she hoped that from the fishes she got,she could gave me a little bit nutritious food for my growth.After fishing, she would cook the fishes to be a fresh fish soup,which raised my appetite. While I was eating the soup,mother would sit beside me and eat the rest meat of fish,which was still on the bone of the fish I ate.My heart was touched when I saw it.I then used my chopstick and gave the other fish to her.But she immediately refused it and said "Eat this fish, son.I don't really like fish."That was Mother's Second Lie.
3.Then, when I was in Junior High School,to fund my study,mother went to an economic enterprise to bring some used-matches boxes that would be stuck in.It gave her some money for covering our needs.As the winter came,I woke up from my sleep and looked at my mother who was still awoke,supported by a little candlelight and within her perseverance she continued the work of sticking some used-matches box. I said, "Mother, go to sleep, it's late,tomorrow morning you still have to go for work." Mother smiled and said "Go to sleep,dear. I'm not tired."That was Mother's Third Lie.
4.At the time of final term,mother asked for a leave from her work in order to accompany me. While the daytime was coming and the heat of the sun was starting to shine, the strong and persevering mother
waited for me under the heat of the sun's shine for several hours.
As the bell rang, which indicated that the final exam had finished,
mother immediately welcomed me and poured me a glass of tea
that she had prepared before in a cold bottle.
The very thick tea was not as thick as my mother's love,
which was much thicker. Seeing my mother covering with perspiration,
I at once gave her my glass and asked her to drink too.
Mother said "Drink, son. I'm not thirsty!".
That was Mother's Fourth Lie.
5.After the death of my father because of illness,
my poor mother had to play her role as a single parent.
By held on her former job, she had to fund our needs alone.
Our family's life was more complicated. No days without sufferance.
Seeing our family's condition that was getting worse,
there was a nice uncle who lived near my house came to help us,
either in a big problem and a small problem.
Our other neighbors who lived next to us saw that our family's life
was so unfortunate,
they often advised my mother to marry again. But mother,
who was stubborn, didn't care to their advice,
she said "I don't need love."
That was Mother's Fifth Lie.
6.After I had finished my study and then got a job,
it was the time for my old mother to retire.
But she didn't want to; she was sincere to go to the marketplace every morning,
just to sell some vegetable for fulfilling her needs.
I, who worked in the other city, often sent her some money to help her
in fulfilling her needs,
but she was stubborn for not accepting the money.
She even sent the money back to me.
She said "I have enough money."
That was Mother's Sixth Lie.
7.After graduated from Bachelor Degree,
I then continued my study to Master Degree.
I took the degree, which was funded by a company through a scholarship program,
from a famous University in America .
I finally worked in the company. Within a quite high salary,
I intended to take my mother to enjoy her life in America .
But my lovely mother didn't want to bother her son,
she said to me "I'm not used to."
That was Mother's Seventh Lie.
8.After entering her old age,
mother got a flank cancer and had to be hospitalized.
I, who lived in miles away and across the ocean,
directly went home to visit my dearest mother.
She lied down in weakness on her bed after having an operation.
Mother, who looked so old, was staring at me in deep yearn.
She tried to spread her smile on her face;
even it looked so stiff because of the disease she held out.
It was clear enough to see how the disease broke my mother's body,
thus she looked so weak and thin.
I stared at my mother within tears flowing on my face.
My heart was hurt, so hurt, seeing my mother on that condition.
But mother, with her strength, said "Don't cry, my dear.
I'm not in pain."
That was Mother's Eight Lie.
After saying her eighth lie, She closed her eyes forever!
EIGHT LIES OF A MOTHER~1.The story began when I was a child;I was born as a son of a poor family.Even for eating, we often got lack of food.Whenever the time for eating, mother often gave me her portion of rice.While she was removing her rice into my bowl,she would say "Eat this rice, son. I'm not hungry".
That was Mother's First Lie
2.When I was getting to grow up,the persevering mother gave her spare time for fishing in a river near our house,she hoped that from the fishes she got,she could gave me a little bit nutritious food for my growth.After fishing, she would cook the fishes to be a fresh fish soup,which raised my appetite. While I was eating the soup,mother would sit beside me and eat the rest meat of fish,which was still on the bone of the fish I ate.My heart was touched when I saw it.I then used my chopstick and gave the other fish to her.But she immediately refused it and said "Eat this fish, son.I don't really like fish."That was Mother's Second Lie.
3.Then, when I was in Junior High School,to fund my study,mother went to an economic enterprise to bring some used-matches boxes that would be stuck in.It gave her some money for covering our needs.As the winter came,I woke up from my sleep and looked at my mother who was still awoke,supported by a little candlelight and within her perseverance she continued the work of sticking some used-matches box. I said, "Mother, go to sleep, it's late,tomorrow morning you still have to go for work." Mother smiled and said "Go to sleep,dear. I'm not tired."That was Mother's Third Lie.
4.At the time of final term,mother asked for a leave from her work in order to accompany me. While the daytime was coming and the heat of the sun was starting to shine, the strong and persevering mother
waited for me under the heat of the sun's shine for several hours.
As the bell rang, which indicated that the final exam had finished,
mother immediately welcomed me and poured me a glass of tea
that she had prepared before in a cold bottle.
The very thick tea was not as thick as my mother's love,
which was much thicker. Seeing my mother covering with perspiration,
I at once gave her my glass and asked her to drink too.
Mother said "Drink, son. I'm not thirsty!".
That was Mother's Fourth Lie.
5.After the death of my father because of illness,
my poor mother had to play her role as a single parent.
By held on her former job, she had to fund our needs alone.
Our family's life was more complicated. No days without sufferance.
Seeing our family's condition that was getting worse,
there was a nice uncle who lived near my house came to help us,
either in a big problem and a small problem.
Our other neighbors who lived next to us saw that our family's life
was so unfortunate,
they often advised my mother to marry again. But mother,
who was stubborn, didn't care to their advice,
she said "I don't need love."
That was Mother's Fifth Lie.
6.After I had finished my study and then got a job,
it was the time for my old mother to retire.
But she didn't want to; she was sincere to go to the marketplace every morning,
just to sell some vegetable for fulfilling her needs.
I, who worked in the other city, often sent her some money to help her
in fulfilling her needs,
but she was stubborn for not accepting the money.
She even sent the money back to me.
She said "I have enough money."
That was Mother's Sixth Lie.
7.After graduated from Bachelor Degree,
I then continued my study to Master Degree.
I took the degree, which was funded by a company through a scholarship program,
from a famous University in America .
I finally worked in the company. Within a quite high salary,
I intended to take my mother to enjoy her life in America .
But my lovely mother didn't want to bother her son,
she said to me "I'm not used to."
That was Mother's Seventh Lie.
8.After entering her old age,
mother got a flank cancer and had to be hospitalized.
I, who lived in miles away and across the ocean,
directly went home to visit my dearest mother.
She lied down in weakness on her bed after having an operation.
Mother, who looked so old, was staring at me in deep yearn.
She tried to spread her smile on her face;
even it looked so stiff because of the disease she held out.
It was clear enough to see how the disease broke my mother's body,
thus she looked so weak and thin.
I stared at my mother within tears flowing on my face.
My heart was hurt, so hurt, seeing my mother on that condition.
But mother, with her strength, said "Don't cry, my dear.
I'm not in pain."
That was Mother's Eight Lie.
After saying her eighth lie, She closed her eyes forever!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Poet commissioned for Obama Inauguration --
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/us/politics/21poet.html?_r=1
Bravo! Bravo!
Poetry can distill the essence of things.
Kyi May Kaung
Bravo! Bravo!
Poetry can distill the essence of things.
Kyi May Kaung
Burmese junta arrests N. Korean defectors passing through to S. Korea.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,470633,00.html
It's a wonder anyone believes the junta's promise of "elections" in 2010.
It's a wonder anyone believes the junta's promise of "elections" in 2010.
Christmas Poem -- 2008
Dow Jones is down
Ho Ho Ho,
Hope your portfolio
is not too
Lo Lo Lo.
Copyright Kyi May Kaung
12-21-08
Ho Ho Ho,
Hope your portfolio
is not too
Lo Lo Lo.
Copyright Kyi May Kaung
12-21-08
Quote of the Day -- from Irrawaddy Magazine
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Just speaking from New York of your disappointment with the regime does not achieve anything.
— Aung Din, the executive director of US Campaign for Burma, speaking on Ban Ki-moon's disappointment on Burma
Just speaking from New York of your disappointment with the regime does not achieve anything.
— Aung Din, the executive director of US Campaign for Burma, speaking on Ban Ki-moon's disappointment on Burma
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Talk on China-USA relations at Sasakawa Foundation last Monday
http://www.ipsnewsasia.net/bridgesfromasia/node/134
Written by John Feffer of Institute for Policy Studies.
Written by John Feffer of Institute for Policy Studies.
Chinese scholar whose blog was shut down threatens to sue Google and Yahoo --
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/07/chinese_dissident_to_sue_google_and_yahoo/
Of interest to Burmese bloggers who undergo regime harrassment.
Of interest to Burmese bloggers who undergo regime harrassment.
Activist Attorney for Migrant and Farmers' Rights, Shelly Davis, dies --
Fallout -- collage copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/15/AR2008121502904.html
In the face of death, so little we can do. Shelley worked to make others' lives better.
Sincere condolences to Helen and other family members and friends. I am looking for a floral tribute photo to post.
k
Owed to the press -- poem by Richard Lawson -- posted with his permission --
Owed to the Press
Want to lie without redress?
Get a nice job in the press!
If you're regularly pissed
You could be a journalist.
If you like to cast ordure
You could be an interviewer.
If your thing is smearing poo
Broadcaster's the job for you.
If you'd like to be a Nazi
You can join the paparazzi
If you think we do not need yer
Go and sign on with the media.
Don't let them fool you all the way -
Make April First your No News Day!
Copyright Richard Lawson. More poetry from Richard Lawson at
http://www.greenhealth.org.uk/PoePol.htm
Which of us in the Burmese Democracy Movement haven't been batted around by (especially the Burmese language)media, but also certain hard talkers, who should be hard talking the junta, not us. I think this poem captures it all.
Kyi May Kaung.
Want to lie without redress?
Get a nice job in the press!
If you're regularly pissed
You could be a journalist.
If you like to cast ordure
You could be an interviewer.
If your thing is smearing poo
Broadcaster's the job for you.
If you'd like to be a Nazi
You can join the paparazzi
If you think we do not need yer
Go and sign on with the media.
Don't let them fool you all the way -
Make April First your No News Day!
Copyright Richard Lawson. More poetry from Richard Lawson at
http://www.greenhealth.org.uk/PoePol.htm
Which of us in the Burmese Democracy Movement haven't been batted around by (especially the Burmese language)media, but also certain hard talkers, who should be hard talking the junta, not us. I think this poem captures it all.
Kyi May Kaung.
Understanding the Kachin conflict -- from Pulitzer International Center for Crisis Reporting --
http://pulitzercenter.typepad.com/untold_stories/2008/12/myanmar-11-key-points-for-understanding-the-kachin-conflict.html#more
Renewed conflict is expected after Burmese military junta's 2010 "election."
Authors write that 1994 ceasefire achieved nothing.
Kyi May Kaung
Renewed conflict is expected after Burmese military junta's 2010 "election."
Authors write that 1994 ceasefire achieved nothing.
Kyi May Kaung
Friday, December 19, 2008
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass on what is prose poetry, role of poetry etc.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/haas/prosepoems.htm
In 1997 I was at a poetry slam downtown where a group of high school students "slammed" well-known poets such as Nikki Giovanni, the audience gave grades by holding up cards with numbers on them and the high school students won.
Kyi May Kaung
In 1997 I was at a poetry slam downtown where a group of high school students "slammed" well-known poets such as Nikki Giovanni, the audience gave grades by holding up cards with numbers on them and the high school students won.
Kyi May Kaung
Death of political poetry in USA --
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3169.html
How different from poetry in my country of origin (Burma) where you can be jailed or killed or lose a job for a poem.
kmk
How different from poetry in my country of origin (Burma) where you can be jailed or killed or lose a job for a poem.
kmk
Review of Guy Delisle's graphic novel Burma Chronicles --
http://blog.oregonlive.com/steveduin/2008/12/graphic_novel_review_burma.html
It's all true, let me assure you.
Kyi May Kaung
It's all true, let me assure you.
Kyi May Kaung
International Criminal Court and America -- something -President Elect Obama should do as soon as sworn in -
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/03/opinion/edcohen.php
Shoe-throwing Iraqui journalist was beaten -- from IHT
Shoe-throwing Iraqui journalist was beaten -- from IHT
Junta backed USDA (Union Solidarity Development Association)
from Mizzima.
http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/1469-junta-backed-usda-unlikely-to-contest-2010-election.html
I am posting like others in case Mizzima can't be accessed directly from inside Burma due to government blocking.
http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/1469-junta-backed-usda-unlikely-to-contest-2010-election.html
I am posting like others in case Mizzima can't be accessed directly from inside Burma due to government blocking.
Saki (H.H. Munro) was born today, Dec 18, in Akyab, Burma --
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/happy-birthday/2008/Dec/Saki.html
Very interesting. I did not know this, nor his "Burma connection" in colonial military police force in Burma, so like George Orwell's.
I also did not know he died of a sniper's bullet while an enlisted soldier.
I wish more native Burmese wrote/write in English then and now.
Kyi May Kaung
Very interesting. I did not know this, nor his "Burma connection" in colonial military police force in Burma, so like George Orwell's.
I also did not know he died of a sniper's bullet while an enlisted soldier.
I wish more native Burmese wrote/write in English then and now.
Kyi May Kaung
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
UN Security Council stuck on Burma, Darfur etc etc -- UN needs to reform by Carne Ross --
Warning -- oil on canvas, 24x12" Painting and photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://www.independentdiplomat.com/html/ourwork.htm
Carne Ross article in Open Democracy --
http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/united-nations-in-trouble-time-for-another-san-francisco
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Pilot to Bombardier by Kyle Dargan -- in FPIF
Sha Sha (Kill! Kill! Battle cry of the Boxers during the Boxer Rebellion,) painting and photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5718
"Pilot to Bombardier
are the boulevards burning?"
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Burma message from Edith Mirante and Scott Bateman on salon.com
http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/politics/2008/05/22/bateman_burmarap/index.html
Edith Mirante drew attention to Burmese human rights abuses in the early 90s, before anyone else did, distributing xerox copies of reports, some of which she wrote herself, with her mother as her only helper.
Bravo Edith, you give us Strength.
Edith Mirante drew attention to Burmese human rights abuses in the early 90s, before anyone else did, distributing xerox copies of reports, some of which she wrote herself, with her mother as her only helper.
Bravo Edith, you give us Strength.
Ashin Kovida -- from Switzerland, on Buddhism and politics --
http://ashinkovida-swiss.blogspot.com/2008/08/buddhism-and-politics.html
Apparently, this is not the same U Kovida who fled Burma after being one of the leaders of the Saffron Revolution.
It's a good blog, I hope he writes more.
Apparently, this is not the same U Kovida who fled Burma after being one of the leaders of the Saffron Revolution.
It's a good blog, I hope he writes more.
Friend of Burma -- Simon Billeness -- mugged in DC
http://simonbillenness.blogspot.com/
Get a fake wallet or money clip,keep a few dollars in it, throw in direction of muggers and flee in other direction.
I knew this, from police instructor, in Philadelphia, but have not thought about it lately.
They also told me, if raped, don't fight. Remember things about the rapist. Don't wash afterwards. Call 911 when rapist gone.
Walk with hand in pocket and with confidence.
Cross street if see gang approaching. Be aware of surroundings.
Walk in well lighted areas.
Don't take short cuts.
Get a fake wallet or money clip,keep a few dollars in it, throw in direction of muggers and flee in other direction.
I knew this, from police instructor, in Philadelphia, but have not thought about it lately.
They also told me, if raped, don't fight. Remember things about the rapist. Don't wash afterwards. Call 911 when rapist gone.
Walk with hand in pocket and with confidence.
Cross street if see gang approaching. Be aware of surroundings.
Walk in well lighted areas.
Don't take short cuts.
World's greatest blogger -- Arianna Huffington, on blogging --
http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/arianna-huffington-on-blogging/5897/
"Blogging is good, if like me you have a strong accent. I am much better understood on my blog."
Arianna Huffington
"Blogging is good, if like me you have a strong accent. I am much better understood on my blog."
Arianna Huffington
Madoff billion $ Ponzi scheme --
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/business/13investors.html?th&emc=th
Don't keep all your eggs in one basket!
Don't keep all your eggs in one basket!
Monday, December 08, 2008
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
In Bangkok, Suvarnabhumi airport re-opens as protesters force out PM.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/asia/04thai.html?th&emc=th
If protesters had closed down Rangoon airport, the army would have staged another crackdown and thousands would have been killed and arrested.
In Thailand, the Thai army did not stage a coup this time. Seemed to support the demonstrators, and so did the king.
If protesters had closed down Rangoon airport, the army would have staged another crackdown and thousands would have been killed and arrested.
In Thailand, the Thai army did not stage a coup this time. Seemed to support the demonstrators, and so did the king.
Amitav Ghosh on terrorist attacks in Mumbai --
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/opinion/03ghosh.html?th&emc=th
Ghosh started writing about Burma in an article in The New Yorker in 1996.
He is the author of The Glass Palace, set in Mandalay in 1886.
Ghosh started writing about Burma in an article in The New Yorker in 1996.
He is the author of The Glass Palace, set in Mandalay in 1886.
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