Please Fax Before You Invade

Weird Burma story of the day: The country's ruling generals are officially leaving the Capital for Pyinmana, a remote and completely undeveloped part of the country—and taking the entire government with them. (A friend e-mails to tell me he walked into one of Rangoon's ministries last week to find the place utterly abandoned.) No one seems to know why, although my money is on paranoia over a U.S. invasion. ("They want our jade," an official explained to me last year.) Financial Times reports:

Foreign diplomats and international aid workers said the move suggested the military junta was retreating into a physical bunker.

In its statement, the foreign ministry advised diplomats: "If you need to communicate on urgent matters, you can send a fax to Pyinmana."