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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Los Angeles Times / The Bulletin
May 31, 2008
PA DEWE GAW, Myanmar — Tropical Cyclone Nargis didn’t kill Ma Thein Hlaing. Neglect did.
She was in the village monastery, reciting Buddha’s canons day and night in the five-day ceremony of “pahtan,” as the storm gathered strength over the ocean....