Following up on Saors post just a couple days ago, shortly after, three more Tibeten monks set themselves on fire in an act of protest against Chinese rule in Tibet. Two of those Tibetans are in critical condition and one passed away. The latest protest would mean 19 Tibetans had self-immolated in the past year and 13 of them had died. Most of the protesters are Buddhist monks or nuns in what are seen as acts of desperation in the face of tightening Chinese controls over Tibetan life and culture. Most of the immolations have occurred in heavily Tibetan areas of China’s Sichuan province. The Dalai Lama recently spoke out about the wave of self-immolations in Tibet blaming Beijing’s “cultural genocide” continue reading …

Art historians say they have found a copy of the Mona Lisa, which they believe is probably painted by one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s own pupils. Via bbc.

The revolutionary interviewed by the colonizer.
For English subs… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB-sNSiY8Vc&feature=related
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Sized slightly larger than human-scale.…

 
At Water’s Edge // Dau Ngoc – Directed by Do Van Hoang

“Love, history, Viet Nam” doesn’t exactly sum-up this quite complicated little short documentary about a swimming hole along the red river in Hanoi. I’ve heard of this …