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...battle for Shwedagon began in ferocious noonday heat. The authorities had locked the gates of the pagoda, Rangoon's most famous landmark, by mid-morning to prevent the monks who had led the weeklong demonstrations against Burma's military rulers from gathering. Police and soldiers guarded the entrances. The eastern gate of Shwedagon is where thousands of monks would otherwise exit to start their march into downtown Rangoon. But today, hundreds of soldiers and riot police blocked their...
However, after this confrontation, the monks regrouped and surged forward again. Shops along the road were shuttered, but people threw down water bottles from their balconies to aide the protesters. Minutes later, the arc of a tear-gas canister looped through the air toward the pagoda's east entrance. The air was full of dense black clouds from a burning car and motorbike. Running monks retreated through the smoke, many armed with clubs of scavenged wood, one armed with a riot shield snatched from the police. They were shaking and incandescent with rage. "The United Nations must know about this...
Saffron robes usually evoke spiritual calm. But for Burma's military leaders, a surprise gathering of monks is anything but peaceful. On Wednesday in the commercial capital Rangoon, hundreds of Buddhist clergy gathered around the nation's beloved Shwedagon pagoda to protest August price hikes that are pummeling an already impoverished populace. More than a thousand monks also rallied in other parts of the country, their daily alms routes turned into paths of protest...
...shaped ballgowns that made up the finale of the show were unusual for Armani and the flashes of fuchsia and lime green throughout were new for the designer best known as the king of beige, but the razor-sharp tailoring on tiny double-breasted jackets with pagoda-square shoulders was classic Armani. If he came into the French couture arena several seasons ago with a bit off timidity, now he's strutting his stuff - which is to say extremely precise tailoring. One couldn't help but think that the tiny proportions and sharp shape of the jackets were inspired...
...REVIVAL $39 million Cost of restoring the Buddhist Tianning Pagoda in Changzhou, China, which local officials say is the world's tallest 300 million Number of Chinese who practice a religion, according to a survey by Shanghai's East China Normal University