Vietnamese Dragon Lady dies in Rome -

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110427/ap_on_re_eu/obit_madame_nhu

I remember a Life magazine color spread of Madame Nhu and Mrs. Marcos in their national clothes, and the hoopla.

Burma after sanctions - from Dissident Voice

http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/04/the-future-of-myanmar-without-sanctions/

myanmar korea soccer match - from internet

http://nimg.sulekha.com/sports/original700/myanmar-north-korea-soccer-2009-10-28-4-45-22.jpg

Rare World War II aircraft found by sonar in sea off UK

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110408/lf_nm_life/us_britain_warplane

Mostly regime apologists will meet at SAIS on Monday 11th in DC

http://uskoreainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Myanmar-and-the-Two-Koreas-Program-Agenda-FINAL.pdf

On International Crisis Group's Burma reports - Outrageously Optimistic by Maung Zarni.

http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/4383-outrageously-optimistic.html

Antibiotic resistant super bugs

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/antibiotic-superbugs-crkp-mrsa-risk

The London Review Cake Shop -

An apple pie from O'Hare Airport in Chicago, dressed up on my plate from China - Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.

http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/pages.php?pageid=4

As our dear Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said, "I have been to Bristol" -- when she was recently named honorary convenor of a festival in Bristol "Next time I am in Bristol, I must go to the Festival."

Next time I am in London, I shall go to this cake shop.

R K Narayan's short story - Trail of the Green Blazer in London Review of Books -

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v02/n11/rk-narayan/trail-of-the-green-blazer

RK Narayan was president of India, his wife Usha Narayan was born in Mandalay - translated Burmese short stories.

Kyi May Kaung

3 Burmese Poems, introduced and translated by Kyi May Kaung

http://vispoets.comhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif/index.php?showtopic=1380

The Formal Reception

I dress up
for one of life's
formal
receptions

clip on my head
one fall of false
fake hair

tame my unruly
tresses with
the spiked hairpin
of forbearance

let fall my
padeikthantara
fringe or bangs

add on two
boastful
bling bling
ear rings

then - for defense
cover myself with
my stole --

There -

I'm all dressed up

to go.

English translation copyright Kyi May Kaung
4-4-2011

Kyi May Kaung's Moulmein Riverfront poem in Counterpunch

http://counterpunch.org/poems01082010.html

So far 81 movers and shakers wish to donate 52 Merchant St. former US Embassy Rangoon to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/donate-52-merchant-st-rangoon-to-nldaung-san-suu-kyi/

Jesse Ventura

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura

Libyan multiple rape victim fears for her life

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110405/ts_yblog_thecutline/alleged-libyan-rape-victim-iman-al-obeidi-breaks-through-to-the-international-press

Washington DC cherry blossoms peak - all photos copyright Kyi May Kaung

Metro stop Washington DC. metro is the underground and above ground railway/subway.



Jefferson Memorial - Thomas Jefferson was one of the founding fathers of the United States and main author of the Declaration of Independence - he lent his name to Jeffersonian Democracy.

Burma Soldier

BURMA SOLDIER - (in Burmese) JOIN THE CLANDESTINE RELEASE INTO BURMA from BURMA SOLDIER on Vimeo.

Re-posting - from 07 Saffron Revolution, Burma - interesting in light of current intervention in Libya -

Vajrapani, Buddha's bodyguard as a Greek god Hercules.
From Internet.



http://a4.g.akamai.net/7/4/27043/v0001/kalw.download.akamai.com/27043/YourCall/100107yc.mp3