Out of This World: Best Selling Chinese Artist Li Huayi.

http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=5025

Time for me to take out my inks from Singapore and my paper from Seoul and Bangkok.

Burmese junta closes down Meggin Monastry which provided AIDS related services.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/burmese/news/story/2004/12/041201_friday_dawn.shtml

Argentinian Poet Juan Gelman wins Cervante's Prize

http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003679655

UN Burma Envoy Gambari and Gen. Thein Sein to take turns visiting Cambodia

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200711281223.htm

Burmese monks have disapeared, even as monasteries are used for combat training.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/11/the-rape-of-bur.html

I will talk about Burma at Woman's National Democratic Club on Jan 24th, 2008 at 1 PM.

Guests -- $30.00 each --

http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/dch_tourism2555/dch_tourism.htm?doc_id=122679&area=2522

This is a beautiful and historic building a block from Dupont Circle --

very appropriate that I will be speaking there, partly about the role of women in Burmese politics.

Kyi May Kaung

Posting a picture for practice --

Philadelphia City Hall fountain colored pink for women's breast cancer day -- Ladies, self examine and get annual mammograms. Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung

From Newsweek: In Burma, Big Brother Continues to Watch, Eyelids Propped Up!

http://www.newsweek.com/id/71672/page/1

Burma junta reneges on promise to stop arrests --

According to Amnesty International, approximately 1900 remain under arrest --

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=ax2oQlz.CEwk&refer=india

Pakistan's Gen. Musharraf sheds his uniform --

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/28/pakistan.musharraf/index.html

but his replacement is "in the same mold."

Brooke Astor's Estate --

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/nyregion/27astor.html?th&emc=th

Burma News Items:

http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/cat/c3891022f175b678

Last of remains of Russian Royals found --

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/world/europe/25czar.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&th&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1196103612-grck/8AmmREteHOJcMvnew

New York Times: New York Manhole Covers Forged Barefoot in India.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/nyregion/26manhole.html?th&emc=th

Beowulf translation by Frances B. Grummere -- Harvard Classics -- copyright expired.

http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/beowulf/index.html

I have not yet read Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation, but to me (though I don't read Old English)
this translation best captures the alliteration in each line, connecting two parts of each sentence, that is a feature of the original 11th century poem about 6th century events, of which only one manuscript survives, with two 18th century transcripts.

In 2000, Seamus Heaney's translation was included in a Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Like magical realism, the epic poem Beowulf combines real and imagined characters and events. There is a burial mound in Sweden dating to the same period that has been identified as Beowulf's. See -- Wikipedia.

Kyi May Kaung

"Pay me for my Content" by Jaron Laner

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/opinion/20lanier.html?th&emc=th

Tired of being expected as a writer and artist to "live on stones."

Friend of Burma, Myanmar Critic, Former Thai PM Surin Pitsuwan to be new chair of ASEAN

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSSIN15991320071122

Yeah, Surin!

UN Special Envoy Gambari no longer allowed to address ASEAN

Monks demonstrating in Rangoon on September 25th, 2007. Photo Mizzima.com

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8T0SFTO0&show_article=1

and in Burma, arrests of ethnic leaders continues and novices (don la ba yahan) not allowed to enter sangha at this time.

Monks also not allowed into Rangoon without special permits.

Amnesty International very concerned about Burmese monk U Gambira and others.

Portrait of Human Rights Activist -- oil on canvas -- copyright Kyi May Kaung.

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17530

Arresting family members as hostages is totally unacceptable.

U Gambira, Su Su Nway and others were only excercising their God-given right to express themselves freely and peacefully.

Infamous Khmer Rouge Duch brought to trial in Pnom Penh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/world/asia/21cambo.html?th&emc=th

See Francois Bizot's Memoir, The Gate.

Duch pronounced "Doik." See also First They Killed My Father, and Dith Pran and Haing S. Ngor's memoirs.