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...Corporation that has said through its actions that it is not willing to heed the concerns of students, faculty, and alumni about their investment in PetroChina. It is the Corporation that has said through its actions that it is not willing to divest from Sudan (or Burma for that matter) and thus not be involved prominently in the slaughter of human beings. Finally, it is the Corporation that has said through its actions that it is not only willing to carry on investing in PetroChina, but it also thinks so little of the human life at stake in Darfur...
...bound for Thailand's lush north, you won't be able to escape this architectural fad, which celebrates the building styles of the Lanna civilization?a 14th and 15th century society that encompassed northern Thailand, part of Laos and what are now the Shan States of Burma...
...career was winding down. Her last contract was with the Poverty Row studio Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) for top-billed roles in two 1942 propaganda films set in the Asian war. In Joseph H. Lewis' Bombs Over Burma she's a schoolteacher joining forces with American GIs to defeat the Japs. "I can stand up and take it now," a soldier brags. "And what's more I can give it back." Wong smiles and replies, "Like China." This is one of the few exchanges in a strange movie, whose dialogue is so sotto voce, it's almost not-o voce...
...impossible. "First we go down the prosecution route," Clarke said, "but in the event that we can't do that, I'm not prepared to ... allow these people to succeed." The human-rights community is up in arms. "House arrest seems to be something that happens in places like Burma," said lawyer Louise Christian, who represents two of the four British detainees who returned from Guantánamo Bay last week. A major concern is that the Home Secretary, not a court, would impose a control order, and also that "people may not be allowed to know the evidence held...
...Burma's history of official secrecy may be more than just the usual knee-jerk reaction to bad news. The country's generals have been known to view natural events in a highly superstitious light: the discovery of a huge ruby or block of jade or a white elephant is invariably trumpeted as a validation of their rule, while a major earthquake could be seen as an omen of impending regime change. Whatever the tsunami's heavenly consequences for their rulers, however, ordinary Burmese have every reason to feel lucky...