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Briefs ( Page 3, Date: 10/28/97 ) 

>>>     Loan agreement 

     YANGON -- Visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo held talks with
Myanmar Deputy Prime
     Minister Vice-Admiral Maung Maung Khin at the International
Business Centre here yesterday. Both
     expressed the desire to further develop Sino-Myanmar
good-neighbour-ly relations and strengthen
     the trade and economic co-operation between the two countries.
After the talks, the two sides signed
     a loan agreement, under which the Chinese Government will provide a
preferential loan to the
     Myanmar Government. 

>>>     Good-will visit 

     A DELEGATION of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), led by
General Liu Jingsong,
     commander of PLA Lanzhou Military Area Command, left Beijing
yesterday for an official good-will
     visit to Thailand, Bangladesh and Myanmar at the invitation of the
armed forces of these countries.