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...hard to feel good about a person described as an absconder, an insurgent and an opium-smuggling terrorist--unless the group doing the name calling is the military junta that runs Burma (Myanmar) and the person being defamed is Dr. Cynthia Maung. Since 1988, Maung has been building and running a thriving medical clinic on the treacherous Thailand-Burma border, providing badly needed health care for 70,000 people a year and facing down one of the most oppressive dictatorships in the world...
...Increase in government-controlled fuel prices announced in Burma last week, in response to rising global energy costs...
...China's countryside, home to 900 million, has energy woes of its own--low tech, but no less important to the nation's development. Most rural Chinese households depend on coal braziers and open wood-fueled hearths for their cooking. That is why Yunnan province, nestled between Tibet and Burma in the country's southwest, boasts forests that are among the world's most biodiverse--and most imperiled. Consumption of wood for fuel in the area averages about 6 tons per family of four per year, hacking 300,000 acres off the forest each year and leaving some of China...
...Amrapali made him a gift of a mango grove; and Kushinagar, where, lying on a bed under two trees, he died. Buddhism withered in India in the Middle Ages; the great temples and monasteries were destroyed by invaders and the pilgrims stopped coming. In the 19th century, pilgrims from Burma and Sri Lanka rediscovered the trail, renovated and rebuilt ruined monasteries and temples, and the Buddhist pilgrimage circuit slowly revived...
...English language and American culture. And now we are also affected by regional influences. Asian peoples are linked by an interest in Japanese pop culture, Korean drama, Taiwanese literature, Hong Kong celebrities, Thai and Vietnamese cuisine, and Indonesian beach holidays. The interest in pan-Asian culture, from Japan to Burma, doesn't mean the influence of the U.S. has been eradicated. It continues to go hand in hand with Asian culture. Masaki Murata Kamakura, Japan...