INFORMATION_SHEET N0.0135(I)

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INFORMATION	SHEET N0.0135(I)
                                                Dated.21-09-97	

(1) 		Myanmar Delegation Leaves for Russian Federation
		Myanmar delegation led by Minister for Rail Transportation 
U Win Sein left Yangon on 20 September for the Russian Federation on a
goodwill visit and to study railways services there at the invitation of his
counterpart.

(2)		Cold Storages, Fisheries Processing Commissioned into Service
		Myanmar Beijing Fisheries Co Ltd and TT International Fisheries Co Ltd
inaugurated one new cold storage each in Hlinethaya and Insein Townships on
20 September. Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Livestock and 
Fisheries and Beijing Fisheries Corporation of PRC signed an agreement on 
9 March 1995 on formation of joint-venture Myanmar Beijing Fisheries Co Ltd.
Under the agreement, freezing, producing ice, fishing and breeding prawns
will be undertaken for 20 years. Equipment and materials worth US $ 2.2
million were installed in it. Its buildings and roads were constructed at a
cost of 
K 83.78 million. The cold storage, 150 metres by 108 metres, can produce 
30 tons of ice a day, store 300 tons and freeze 500 kilos of finished
products every three hours. The TT International cold storage, with a storage
capacity of 400 tons, was built on a 2.23-acre plot beginning February 1996.
Test 
operation took place nine months later, in November. Equipment and materials
installed in the cold storage were purchased form Denmark for US $ 920,000.
Altogether K 20 million was  spent on the construction and purchase of parts.
The company has exported prawns worth US $ 3.5 million to eight countries and
plans to export to two more countries. Its production capacity is 6.5 tons by
the control freezer and 6 tons by the blast freezer, totalling 12.5 tons per
day.

(3)		Myanmar Trade Fair 98 to be held 	27 January to 2 February
		
Myanmar Trade Fair 98 will be held on grand scale at Yangon Trade Centre in
Mingala Taungnyunt Township from 27 January to 2 February next year with the
sponsorship of the Ministry of Commerce. Local and foreign companies?
products will be on display at the trade fair to be held with the aims-to
promote foreign trade and investment, to promote Myanmar export, to seek
market for local-made items, to promote production of import substitutes and
to obtain more technical and financial assistance from abroad. It will be the
fifth international trade fair of the ministry.

(4)		Article for Reading
		This office is forwarding an article ?Forestry sector?s developing trend?
for your reading pleasure.


		OFFICE CALLS IN YANGON ON 20 SEPTEMBER

(A)		Minister for Cooperatives U Than Aung received Chairman Mr Chong Chang
 Kyo of Young Nam Rent-a-car Co Ltd and New Crown Travel Co Ltd of the
Republic of Korea and party at his office.

(B)		Minister for Livestock and Fisheries U Aung Thaung received  a
delegation led by Deputy Secretary Mr Cao Xue Kuo of Development  Committee
of the People?s Republic of China.


















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