Canada will grant honorary citizenship to Burma’s detained dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday in recognition of her tireless struggle for human rights and democracy in the Southeast Asian country.
The military regime in Burma, also known as Myanmar, has kept the Nobel Peace Prize recipient in prison or under house arrest for much [...]
Sunday, 4 May 2008
Categories: world affairs . Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize . Author: monkeymind . Comments: Leave a Comment
The May 4 birthday of the Gautama Buddha 佛誕 is celebrated in East Asia on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. It’s an official holiday in Hong Kong, Macau, and South Korea, but not in Japan where its occurs on April 8 but not as an official holiday (but Flower [...]
Sunday, 4 May 2008
Categories: wisdom teachings . Tags: Buddha, Shakyamuni, Siddhartha . Author: monkeymind . Comments: Leave a Comment