Kyi May Kaung's cover feature article - Potemkin politics: Are Burma's reforms for real - fr Himal Southasian

http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/4842-potemkin-politics.html

Chinese water calligraphy

http://www.danwei.com/tricycle-water-calligraphy/

Ai Wei Wei

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ai-wei-wei/

Burma - Lady of the Lake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtYY6GllMNA&feature=related

Crocs and snakes displaced by Thai floods

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22545

Japanese-American artist Yuri Mason

http://myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=Yuri_Mason

The Daily Beast - Why Hilary Clinton is visiting Burma -

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/19/hillary-clinton-in-burma-why-she-s-visiting-the-oppressed-state.html

The Diplomat: Slow down with Burma -

http://the-diplomat.com/asean-beat/2011/11/26/slow-down-with-burma/

Cambodia - brother #2

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22517

Karen music of the refugee camps

http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/3609-burmese-songs-of-exile.html

US millionaires ask to be taxed more

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/16/news/economy/tax_millionaires/index.htm?hpt=hp_c1

Musician occupies Apec dinner -

http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html?hpt=hp_t2#/video/bestoftv/2011/11/14/exp-occupy-musician.cnn

Special school for teen girls from wartorn areas, including Burma -

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/12/us/atlanta-refugee-school/

re-posting - Deusche Welle interview of Dr. Zarni, LSE, Burma political prisoners as bargaining chips

http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_single_mediaplayer/0,,5250650_type_audio_struct_12758_contentId_5250683,00.html

The junta's politics as war.

Note:

To the gutless person, sure it's a man, who keeps writing "hack, again!" whenever I re-post something -

I deleted all your comments.

The correct usage is "Heck. No!"

From "What the heck"

I am not a hack writer, I re-post for a reason, and if you don't even have the guts to post your real name, at least get your usage, grammar and spelling correct. "Go to hack" which is probably where you are already.

Kyi May Kaung

Photograph of Japanese journalist shot to death on streets in Rangoon, Burma during Saffron Revolution wins Pulitzer Prize

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ0P8XuWJg8

The report is in Burmese but the images are in international sign language.

Kyi May Kaung

Imprisoned Burmese monk U Gambira in urgent need of medical care -

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA16/006/2011/en/9e0d7be5-4abe-45f7-8011-6d293017b61a/asa160062011en.pdf

Movie The Lady - LA Times interview of actress Michelle Yeoh -

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/11/the-lady-michelle-yeoh-luc-besson.html

she looks very like Daw Suu but the Burmese voices are all wrong, and "the speech" is incomprehensible to a Burmese speaker -

Besson should have used real Burmese for the voices, even the crowd scenes.

At least Beyond Rangoon had Burmese actors.

kmk

Occupy movement uses Guy Fawkes masks

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/04/world/europe/guy-fawkes-mask/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

National Public Radio - signs of change in Burma -

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/01/141908775/signs-of-change-in-myanmar

Kyi May Kaung's comment on actress Emma Thompson's trip to Burma -

during which she claimed to see "change in Burma".

Left on website - 10-29-2011

"I admire Emma Thompson tremendously as an actor and activist etc.

But in this case she is MISTAKEN -

she has fallen into the trap of speaking for a non-profit which needs to be on the right side of the junta to continue in-country operations.

The so-called change is only a media whitewash so the junta can get western sanctions lifted.

Ms. Thompson needs to look at things deeper than one "fact-finding" trip sponsored by one non-profit organisation.

Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)"