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Stale news is best: Aye Chan Myate worked in a newsroom in Rangoon that was like no other. She looks back on a typical day.(DAILY LIFE

The morning sun enters my room quietly. Though I don't want to leave bed just yet, today is Monday, deadline day. So, I have to report at work as early as possible. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I am under a lot of pressure--both at work and in Rangoon. Lately I find the city too hot, too crowded and too

Publication: New Internationalist

Burma snapshots.(Writers Under Siege)(censorship in Myanmar)

RANGOON LIKE MONKS in the monasteries at Ladakh, writers in Rangoon are always a climb away. So not until I reach the fifth floor at the address I had been given do I find eight young Burmese poets, all men, sitting around a metal table on metal chairs in a large, otherwise empty room. Their

Publication: The New Leader

Eye to eye with SLORC: Malaysian journalist Ong Ju Lynn sees the human face of Burma's deadly regime and is shocked to find it like her own.

Early last year, 18 foreign nationals (from the US, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia) were detained in Rangoon after they were caught leafleting documents calling for the end of the current military regime. We came from all walks of life. A 19-year-old American college kid. A

Publication: New Internationalist

Suu Kyi is set to be freed `within weeks' Burma Generals encourage hopes for democracy - but observers warn of empty gestures aimed at easing international sanctions

As Burmese Buddhists let caged songbirds fly free as part of the Thervada New Year rites yesterday, supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader, hoped the ruling junta would follow suit and release the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize-winner after nearly a year of house arrest. Riot police faced

Publication: The Independent on Sunday

THE PASSION OF SUK KYI - New York Times

On weekend afternoons in Rangoon, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Daw AungSan Suu Kyi, 50, climbs up on a fence in front of her crumbling lake-side villa, takes a microphone in hand and speaks of democracy. Thousands of Burmese come in from all over the countryside to participate in her "free

Publication: The New York Times

- TIME

Not long ago, TIME made a special subscription offer to servicemen, writing them about the fabulous exploits of a mythical Captain "Hot Shot" Callahan. Captain Callahan, it seemed had everything it took to make small boys dream about their own conquest of the wild blue yonder. "Back in the last

Publication: Time Magazine

Eats: Panda Garden

Service is usually not a standout attribute of a lunch buffet. Not that it's usually bad, per se. More like it's not. Not there, I mean. Absent. Missing. Nonexistent. Not present. Nil. Usually, someone will get water or your soda for you at the start, and then deposit the bill on your table shortly

Publication: Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.

New in Paperback

NONFICTION Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada , by Clarence King (Penguin, $8.95). Clarence King never lived up to his early promise. After founding the U.S. Geological Survey, exploring the western mountains, naming and climbing Mount Whitney, and writing this high-spirited book, he died in

Publication: The Washington Post