“Handlers sit on elephants waiting to go through a medical check-up at the Pho Kyar in central [Burma].” Photo by the Agence France-Presse.
Here are the Burma headlines for today:
The Agence France-Presse notes that eco-tourists are steering clear of Burma’s elephant camps (the image above is from one of the them), and reflects on Burma’s dying tourist industry. They write, “Tourist arrivals to Myanmar have been dropping since a bloody 2007 crackdown on anti-junta protests, while last year’s cyclone and pressure from pro-democracy groups overseas to boycott the country also deter holiday-makers.”
The Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports that the junta’s leader Senior General Than Shwe presided over the consecration of a new Buddhist pagoda (or, stupa) in the junta-determined capital of Naypyitaw. The general and his wife donated a Buddha tooth relic for the pagoda to be built around. The ceremony was attended by 583 monks, and other junta leaders.
Variety reports that film festival darling Burma VJ has found a distributor in Oscilloscope Laboratories, the New York-based film company founded by Beastie Boy, director, and Tibet activist Adam Yauch. To read my previous posts about the film, follow this link.
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“Handlers sit on elephants waiting to go through a medical check-up at the Pho Kyar in central [Burma].” Photo by the Agence France-Presse.
