James Camerson's Avatar -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%282009_film%29

Isreali commandos board aid flotilla bound for Gaza Strip -

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians

Justin Wintle's Perfect Hostage - the Life of Aung San Suu Kyi

http://books.google.com/books?id=2QtK3PrF458C&pg=PA394&lpg=PA394&dq=complaints+against+maureen+aung+thwin&source=bl&ots=j9-W_2Xs__&sig=1TjqCHunuOKemen_hihINRGiYbg&hl=en&ei=b6gCTKHOE4H88Abgl5zZDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Burmese economy on eve of 2010 "election."

From US Institute of Peace --

http://www.usip.org/resources/the-economy-burmamyanmar-the-eve-the-2010-elections

Andrea Gillies' Keeper, about caring for her Alzeimers mother in law, wins Orwell Prize.

http://writersinnerjourney.com/2010/01/the-5-question-author-interview-andrea-gillies.html

Thornton: Burma and Saffron Revolution -- requires response because it is ethical

http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:wa&volume=12&issue=1&article=007

Reposting -- The White Chair, by Kyi May Kaung -- about the death of Padoh Mahn Sha

http://internationalcampaignforfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/04/white-chair-by-kyi-may-kaung.html

Still an outsider -- profile of Kyi May Kaung by Ying Ju Lai -- re-posting --

http://www.asianfortunenews.com/site/article_0407.php?article_id=10

Peaceful transition at 10 Downing Street, Helen Mirren wax look alike etc

http://politicsandstyle.blogspot.com/

Canadian journalist shot in Bangkok expected to survive --

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/breakingnews/canada-closes-bangkok-embassy-as-violence-spreads-in-thai-capital--93771954.html

Earlier a Japanese? videographer was shot dead in riots in April.

A curfew has been imposed 14 mins ago on parts of Bangkok, embassies on Sathorn Road are closed.

Thai King and Queen offered to cover medical expenses of those wounded.

Maybe the Thai army is getting some "lessons" from the horrible Burmese junta in "crowd control with live bullets."

Kyi May Kaung

Presdt. Obama extends national emergency with respect to Burma -

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/message-president-continuation-national-emergency-with-respect-burma

Obama Admin renews sanctions on Burma --

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jO5kzzKr1byB6AgeZC7Zo3UV6vAA

Democracy Now interview of Isabel Allende --

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/3/chilean_author_isabel_allende_on_her

Also good interview with Tavis Smiley

ms formatting -- Writing World.com

http://www.writing-world.com/basics/manuscript.shtml

Iraqui poet Saadi Youssef

http://www.wildriverreview.com/interview/saadi-youssef/tonight-we-rest-here/stocke

Campbell warns Burma about buying arms from N.Korea + slide show of US officials with Aung San Suu Kyi

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18440&page=1

"To read the pictures," in the first one Suu Kyi is not shaded (protected) by either umbrella.

Is the US going to foresake her too, the way they did with Benazir?

Kyi May Kaung

Burmese classical poetry, translated by F. Lustig, Buddhist Archbishop of Latvia

who lived in exile from the Soviet Union in Burma.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7365902/Burmese-Classical-Poems

Albert Fytche's Burma 1878, on sale for $1100

http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/fytche-albert/burma-past-and-present/76191.aspx

Dendrobium Fytche (Khwa Nyo Pan) is mentioned in this book.

Kyi May Kaung

Orchids of my mother's --

http://www.orchids-flowers.com/orchids/coelogyne-lentiginosa-lindl-1852-thai-orchid/

Coelogyne Schilleriana and others --

http://www.coelogyne.net/Coelogyne_schilleriana.html

Hkwa Nyo Pan -

http://www.orchids-flowers.com/orchids/dendrobium-fytchianum-bateman-1864/comment-page-1/#comment-152

Abstract - Kyi May Kaung's proposed paper for Burma Studies 2010

Globalization, Burma and United States Policy.

Since the clampdown on the nation-wide pro-democracy movement in 1988, the Burmese military government has been pursuing an "open economy" (open to international trade but nothing else) which is bringing it closer into the global economy, albeit in a contorted way.
The discovery of reserves of natural gas and oil has enriched its coffers, at the same time as it has pushed towards its model of "disciplined democracy" with a so-called election at the end of 2010. It is pushing to suppress all ethnic freedom groups and convert them into border guards and Thailand is about to send back large numbers of Karen refugees. Simultaneously, it is "privatizing" but it looks like junta cronies and family members will get to buy enterprises at fire sale prices. At this crucial time the US is pursuing a policy of engagement, which does not seem to be working.
Is a rogue regime, previously already labeled a pariah government, likely to emerge and is this what the US and the international community want to see in Burmese globalization gone awry?
Last year I helped the Burmese exile government compile a transition plan for a democratic system in Burma with several other Burma scholars.
What is the right and ethical role of Burma experts in all this?

Kyi May Kaung.

The Conference will be held at the University of Provence, Marseille, France.