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...Htein Lin's prison experience is omnipresent in his paintings, which have been featured in recent exhibitions in both Hong Kong and London, where he now lives with his wife, a former British ambassador to Burma. His work - and unique modus operandi - is attracting the attention of international collectors, according to Karin Weber, owner of a Hong Kong gallery specializing in contemporary Burmese art that has shown Htein Lin's paintings. "They're dense with visual information," Weber says, referring to a corpus that both chronicles the artist's bodily and sensory impoverishment, and offers a timely glimpse into...
...know there will be many whose pencils hovered for an instant before putting an X in my box, and I will work flat out to repay and to justify your confidence.' BORIS JOHNSON, British journalist turned politician, after defeating incumbent Ken Livingstone in London's mayoral election...
...Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. But few places are less prepared than the isolated, desperately poor nation of 53 million that is Burma. Ruled by a clique of reclusive generals since 1962, Burma, also known as Myanmar, has degenerated from a resource-rich country, which upon independence from the British 60 years ago was hailed as a model for modern Asia, into an economic disaster zone. Burma now boasts one of the world's worst health systems, a worrisome situation as diseases fester in the wake of the storm. Medical experts warn that filthy water, poor sanitation and lack...
...Brown's Big Ideas Thank you for your considered piece on Prime Minister Gordon Brown [April 28]. Your approach was a welcome change from the concerted personal attacks on him in the British press. I have never voted Labour in a national election, but I think I might do so next time around, and that's down to Brown and his commitment to do the right thing rather than what seems to be the most popular thing. Alison Twaddle, East Lothian, Scotland...
...satisfied with the sentence meted out by a British court, the Chechens wanted to avenge the deaths of their envoys in blood. That sealed Karen Reed's fate. It is hard to imagine a family less likely to be involved in a political mafia killing from the former Soviet Union than Karen and Alison's. But as one of the officers involved in the case pointed out at the time, "We were suddenly dealing with crime and politics from a part of the world that, to be honest, none of us in the Metropolitan or Surrey police had ever heard...