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Kyi Kaung's Writings

Article
Sep.22.2009
Asian Fortune
http://www.asianfortunenews.com/site/article_0407.php?article_id=10
Article
U Win Tin who was 19 years in a junta prison
Jul.05.2009
My Blog http://kyimaykaung.blogspot.com
Note: I wrote this on Friday, July 3. By Saturday, it was evident that Mr. Ban's mission had failed. He did not see either the General or democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose kangaroo trial is also going on this weekend. The excuse was that she is "under trial" -- a catch 22 of an excuse. See BBC World News July 4. For...
Poem
May.07.2009
http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/2007/03/kyi-may-kaung.html
http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/2007/03/kyi-may-kaung.html
Article
Paddling to Nirvana with Sugar Palm Fans -- painting oil on canvas -- copyright Kyi May Kaung
May.02.2009
Foreign Policy in Focus
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4582
Short Story
Sunset -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
Apr.26.2009
                                                          The White Chair  Copyright Kyi May Kaung. I had never known Pado Mahn Sha well, and had seen him only once or twice at international meetings about Burma.  He was in the KNU or Karen National Union, a group that has been in armed rebellion against the central Burmese government since 1947.  They are...
Article
Apr.23.2009
The Irrawaddy (on line) Magazine
Article
Thai folk pottery with hand painted cocks -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
Apr.21.2009
My Red Room Blog -- one time use. Copyright Protection Kyi May Kaung -- not to be re-printed or quoted without written permission from the author.
My Cock vs. Yours:  Cock fighting in Burma, Bali and Thailand  Travel article -- Copyright Kyi May Kaung  As a girl child growing up in Burma, and later as a young woman, I was only vaguely aware of cock fighting as a sport in Rangoon, the capital city.  This period coincided with the administration of the democratically elected prime minister U Nu.  Though...