KyaemonEconomy down. People & lower level soldiers in bad shape. Top level, corrupt and uncaring or in the dark hiding in Naypyidaw.. An explosive situation. Opportunities for the Opposition: Good chance to work on the lower level or mid level soldiers and maybe some top level soldiers. Time for change to sweep away the corrupt […]
This story reminds me of a poor woman in Buddha’s time. She was very poor. Yet, she wanted to donate what little she had. She was struggling with her decision for quite some time. Buddha knew about it, but he didn’t intervene. Finally, she made the donation out of her pure cetana (goodwill or generosity). […]
Gift Shows China Philanthropy Has Reached the Big Leagues Charity Surges on the Mainland as Donations Fall in the U.S.; ‘Time for Us to Give,’ top Chinese Philanthropist Says Chinese Philanthropy Comes of Age – WSJ.com http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703612804575221880681800788.html?mod=WSJ_World_RIGHTTopCarousel HONG KONG—A real-estate and hotel tycoon’s billion-dollar giveaway is the latest sign that Chinese philanthropy has come of […]
Reminds me of the “yet yaza’s” (auspicious days), “pyat thadar’s” (inauspicious days), and “nagar layt” (facing dragon) in Myanmar calendars. “Don’t move towards a dragon facing in the opposite direction and waiting to swallow you up” is the idea behind this direction finder. Fortune tellers especially love to couple their advice with certain days. Like […]
Lin Yu Chun, ‘Taiwan’s Susan Boyle’, signs Sony record deal The shy and portly singer who shot to fame after appearing on a Taiwanese talent show is to record his debut album Lin Yu Chun, ‘Taiwan’s Susan Boyle’, signs Sony record deal | Music | guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/14/lin-yu-chun-sony-record-deal Lin Yu Chun, Taiwan‘s bow-tied “answer to Susan […]
Whitney Houston Sound-Alike Doing Better Than Whitney Houston – Stop The Presses! http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/198228/whitney-houston-sound-alike-doing-better-than-whitney-houston/ Whitney Houston may be struggling with her career, but her sound-alike is hitting a high note. The Taiwanese singing sensation Lin Yu-Chun, who rose from obscurity to YouTube stardom thanks to the Taiwan version of “American Idol,” is now a true star […]
Sailor Jessica Watson to fall short of official round-the-world record | The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/sailor-jessica-to-fall-short-of-official-round-the-world-record/story-e6frg6nf-1225862771532 DESPITE her heroics at sea, teenage solo sailor Jessica Watson is set to be denied formal recognition of being the youngest to circumnavigate the globe alone and unassisted. As the 16-year-old entered the home stretch of her epic journey, battling heavy […]
Australian Jessica Watson, 16, to become youngest to sail around the world – CSMonitor.com http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0514/Australian-Jessica-Watson-16-to-become-youngest-to-sail-around-the-world Australian Jessica Watson, 16, to become youngest to sail around the world At 11 a.m. in Sydney Saturday, 16-year-old Australian Jessica Watson will become arguably the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world. But critics say her […]
Photos: The Sinuous Vision of Architect Zaha Hadid – Photo Essays – TIME http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1985954_2131979,00.html Zaha Hadid – The 2010 TIME 100 – TIME http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1984651,00.html YouTube – Interview with Zaha Hadid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-vhQSycfI&feature=related Zaha Hadid and Amman’s New Performing Art Center. http://bit.ly/deWdNZ YouTube – Zaha Hadid Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27rjmtgyyHo&feature=related YouTube – Zaha Hadid Talking About Challenges of Architecture […]
The 2010 TIME 100 In our annual TIME 100 issue we name the people who most affect our world Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1984651,00.html#ixzz0nyyWBCxS The first time I experienced Zaha Hadid’s work — in 2000, at an exhibit of 20 years of her designs at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London — I had a visceral […]
Shwemannmayမနေ ့က ည က ပူလွန်းလို ့ မအိပ်နိုင်ပါဘူး။ အိမ်ပြင်ထွက်ထိုင်တော့လည်း ခြင်ကကိုက်တာမို ့ ခြင်ထောင်ထဲမှာပဲ ငုတ်တုတ်ထိုင်ယပ်ခတ်နေရပါတယ်။ မီးက ၁၁ နာရီကျ ပြန်လာမှာမို ့ မီးလာရင်တော့ အဲ ကွန်းလေးနဲ ့အိပ်ကြမယ်ဆိုပြီး မီးအလာကို စောင့်နေကြတာပါ။ အမေကတော့ ယပ်ခတ်ရင်းနဲ ့ တစ်ချက်တစ်ချက်မှိန်းနေ တာပေါ့လေ။ ဒီနွေကပူလွန်းတော့ ကလေးသူငယ်တွေနဲ ့သက်ကြီးရွယ်အိုတွေ အပူဒဏ်ကို အတော်ခံစားရရှာပါတယ်။ အိ်ပ်ပျော်နေတဲ့အမေကို ယပ်ခတ်ပေးရင်း ဒီအသက်အရွယ်ထိ မိဘကို ပြုစုစောင့်ရှောက်ခွင့်ပေးတဲ့ ကံတရားကို ကျေးဇူးအတော်တင်မိပါတယ်။ တဆက်တည်း မှာ ငယ်ငယ်တုန်းကဖတ်ဖူးတဲ ့စာအုပ်တစ်အုပ်ထဲက စာပိုဒ်လေးကိုသတိရလို ့မန္တလေးဂဇက်မှာ တင်မယ်လို ့ တေးထားလိုက်ပါတယ်။ အခု ရောက်ရောက်ချင်းပဲ စာစီပြီး တင်ပေးလိုက်ပါတယ်။ ဘာသာရေးစာအုပ်တစ်အုပ်မှာ ဖတ်ဖူးတာပါ။ […]
Junta’s legislative tactic reeks of illegality Monday, 10 May 2010 19:11 B. K. Sen SOURCE: MIZZIMA.COM SHOULD TRANSLATE THIS WELL WRITTEN ARTICLE’S IMPORTANT PARAGRAPHS INTO BURMESE AND SPREAD THE WORD. http://www.mizzima.com/edop/commentary/3920-juntas-legislative-tactic-reeks-of-illegality-.html The Burmese military junta’s electoral laws for the general election to be held this year are part of a well-crafted strategy to ensure that […]
Gulf Coast Oil Spill Oil-stained cattle egret sits on crew swing – Yahoo! News Photos http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Gulf-Coast-Oil-Spill/ss/events/us/042110oilrigexplode;_ylt=AiRVWiL.H7.bKyTb9_8AiUep_aF4;_ylu=X3oDMTFlcWFuNHZ0BHBvcwMzBHNlYwN5bl9yXzNzbG90X3NsaWRlc2hvdwRzbGsDc2xpLWV2LWxpbms-#photoViewer=/100510/480/urn_publicid_ap_org5c8d2c0c7e71448c81807ba6dc8ee41c 565 pictures Gulf spill reminds America: The era of ‘easy oil’ is over WASHINGTON — To meet the world’s boundless thirst for oil, drillers are searching in the sand and mud of remote western Canada, the tough shale rock […]