Word: rangoon
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...S.S.A. possesses between 500 and 2,000 troops?no one knows for sure. Ask a rebel spokesman how many, and he tersely replies, "Enough." Many of the S.S.A.'s fighters were previously loyal to former opium warlord Khun Sa, who surrendered to Rangoon in 1996. Today they answer to plainspoken commander colonel Yawdserk, himself a former Khun Sa man, who vehemently denies any current S.S.A. involvement in the drugs trade. On these remote hills, poppies are still grown and opium is still traded, along with millions of methamphetamine pills called yaba, or crazy medicine...
...Number of Burmese, including a sports-magazine editor, sentenced to death last week by a special court in Rangoon for plotting to overthrow the military junta...
...remains adamant, however, that the large numbers of Asian students frequenting the Kong mean that the menu “can’t be half bad.” He cites spicy Szechuan fish in black bean sauce, Chinese-style eggplant and crab Rangoon (“I like the cream cheese”) as his personal favorite house specialties, with the restaurant’s signature Scorpion Bowls clearly its most popular beverage. The large, shared bowls of punch are served on both floors of the Kong, along with a selection of fruity cocktails and bottled beers ranging...
...RETURNED HOME. Aung San Suu Kyi, 58, Burmese opposition leader; from a hospital stay and four months detention in an undisclosed location by Burma's military government; in Rangoon. Following a three-hour operation for a gynecological condition, the democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize winner returned to her lakeside home, where she reportedly will be kept under house arrest. After arriving there, she released her first public statement since her entourage was attacked by a pro-government mob in May: "I thank you for your warm concern and am confident that you have equal concern for my supporters...
...RECOVERING. Aung San Suu Kyi, 58, detained Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate, from major surgery; in a private hospital in Rangoon. The Oxford-educated Suu Kyi has been held incommunicado by Burma's military government since a mob attacked her and a group of supporters four months...