And will Michelle Yeoh be wearing Burmese junta jade to the Oscars




















Attention grabbing: Yeoh wearing Mandalay’s RM6.8mil
imperial green jadeite necklace with diamonds at the
Cannes Film Festival


International superstar Michelle Yeoh hopes her upcoming film The Lady, based on the life of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, will be nominated for several Academy Awards next year.
"If the media continues to give the film good publicity and reviews, it could become a reality," Yeoh told reporters during a press conference on the International Ipoh Run 2011 in Malaysia. She is the ambassador for the event.
The Malaysia-born Yeoh, who was in award-winning films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Memoirs of the Geisha, said she also hoped to be nominated for Best Actress for her role in the movie.
She said the shooting for The Lady wrapped up early this year, adding that the film was a great honour and tribute to the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who celebrated her 66th birthday on Sunday.
"I would like to wish her good health and stability for her country and fellow citizens. I will be actively promoting the film around the world until its premiere screening," she said.


A)
According to the U.S. State Department, the mining of rubies, as well as jade, not only helps fund the Burmese military junta, but is also at the centre of innumerable and well-documented crimes against humanity that include the implementation of forced labour in mines, the systematic rape of women and young girls, and the ethnic cleansing of opposition minority groups living near sources of mineral wealth.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1312382/The-curse-blood-rubies-Inside-Burmas-brutal-gem-trade.html
Myanmar's (Burma) jade and heroin trades now overlap.
http://www1.american.edu/ted/jade.htm

B)FORMER-Bond Girl and current star of Reign of Assassins, Datuk Michelle Yeoh has the pick of any global jeweller from Cartier, Chaumet, Piaget, Mauboussin, Mouwad, Harry Winston or Tiffany. Since this year, Ipoh-born Datuk Michelle Yeoh, Miss Malaysia 1983, has opted for bling from local jeweller Winnie Sin of Rafflesia and Mandalay.

Rafflesia is the last word for pearls while Mandalay, like its name suggests, is the first place connoisseurs congregate to pick the crop of Myanmar’s rubies and jade

.http://www.thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?sec=central&file=/2010/11/1/central/7326819



C)




Hong Kong-based superstar Michelle Yeoh met with Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar on Monday and again on Tuesday at the airport in Yangon as part of research for Yeoh's possible role in a biopic about the democracy leader.

During their meeting, Yeoh showed Suu Kyi "some production stills on her camera from the movie in which she had dressed like Aung San Suu Kyi. The two of them look very much alike and have a similar build," said Nyan Win, spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy opposition party.

According to the Bangkok Post, the movie is titled "Dans la Lumiere" and will be directed by Luc Besson. A French production team is already wrapping up location shooting in Thailand, which will stand for Myanmar in the movie.

http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/play/michelle-yeoh-might-become-aung-sang-suu-kyi-848472

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