Rare violin recovered on bus - Merry Christmas!

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/us/2011/12/24/green-pa-lost-violin-bus.kyw

N. Korea - Lisa Ling and sister Laura Ling who was held captive in N Korea interviewed by Sanjay Gupta on Anderson Cooper 360-

transcript

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/19/acd.01.html

Thai PM Yingluk Shinawatre meets Aung San Suu Kyi

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/east-pacific/Thai-Prime-Minister-Meets-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-in-Burma-135993048.html

Lady Lady - new Aung San Suu Kyi song by Tiffany Wilson

http://internationalcampaignforfreedom.blogspot.com/

N Korea - only a little more totalitarian than Burma -

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c1#/video/bestoftv/2011/12/20/natpkg-vice-inside-north-korea.cnn

Aung San Suu Kyi's Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/aungsansuukyihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

208 new species found in SE Asia

http://www.voanews.com/khmer-english/news/208-New-Species-Discovered-in-Southeast-Asia-135596428.html

As early as 2000, a National Geographic scientist/contributor, photographer told me that the most new species were being found in Vietnam, just before they became extinct.

Kyi May Kaung

Latest documentary on Burma - I met a man from Burma

http://www.divfacefilms.com/p/i-met-man-from-burma.html

In Burma - Monywa Powintaung Frescoes

http://www.firstpost.com/http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giftopic/place/burma-burma-monywas-ancient-phowin-taung-caves-video-GkKfrNhODZ4-91646-1.html

Dejan Matic - Burma - song - in Serbian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP1IeAG-NUc&feature=relatedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Burma- Moving art installation by Human Right Watch -at NY's Grand Central Station - 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yioRh6IOABE&feature=relatedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

The sound is a Buddhist monk reciting the traditional "sending of metta" or loving kindness prayer and the audience responding Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu or Thadu -- "well done"

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Burmese performance artist Moe Satt

http://www.usatoday.com/news/whttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giforld/story/2011-12-13/Burma-Myanmar-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-Clinton-democracy/51888088/1

Burmese and Lao opium production booming -

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/southeast/UN-Burmese-Laotian-Opium-Cultivation-Surging-135657848.html

US Department of State - Where in the world is Mrs. Clinton?

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/2011http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif/12/177900.htm

See interactive map - useful to teach world geography.

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Independent scholar Kyi May Kaung and USCB's Thelma Young interviewed by Michelle Chen of Asia Pacific Forum -

http:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif//www.asiapacificforum.org/show-detail.php?show_id=250#696

Carnation Lily Lily Rose by John Singer Sargeant

http://www.artden.com/products/carnation-lily-lily-rose?gclid=CLS8z9LO_6wCFSVjTAodbjzTSg

One of my father's favorite paintings.

Kyi May Kaung

Kyi May Kaung interviewed on Asia-Pacific Forum about "change in Burma"

Michelle Chen of Asia Pacific Forum interviewed me about change in Burma, is it real. Dec 13th, 2011

http://www.asiapacificforum.org/show-detail.php?show_id=250

October 2011 Kyaw Aung Lwin of VOA interviewed me about poetry reading in front of Burmese embassy DC – 10,000 poets for change.

Karen National Union's Mahn Nyein Maung arrested in Yunnan in July and deported to Burma, where he is now on trial -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22641

This is a very famous man and great writer whose book I partially translated.

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Burma's junta: Can a tiger change its stripes by Kyi May Kaung

http://epoch-archive.com/a1/en/sg/nnn/2011/11%20November%202011/%20Issue%20385_01_November_2011/385_A7.pdf

Originally in Foreign Policy in Focus.

Here in Epoch Times, I am re-posting as the photograph is so evocative.

Kyi May Kaung.

Hilary and Suu in Burma in pics --

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/dec/01/hillary-clinton-burma-in-pictures?intcmp=239#/?picture=382683546&index=3