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INFORMATION SHEET NO.A -0298(I)



                                 INFORMATION SHEET
                       NO.A -0298(I)	 28th  January   1998
K 120,000 for MMCWA
		Women?s Federation for World Peace, a social organization of Japan, donated
cash to Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association at the office of MMCWA
on 27 January. Ms Miyuki of WFWP handed the cash to Chairperson of MMCWA 
Professor Daw Kyu Kyu Swe.  MMCWA will use the cash for nutrition development
of under-fives, a task of the association.

OFFICE CALL IN YANGON ON 27 JANUARY
		Minister for Mines received visiting Chairman Mr Robert M Friedland of
Ivanhoe Myanmar Holdings Co Ltd at his office.

		ASTONISHINGLY FICTITIOUS
		On 27 January at 07:00 hrs the (Radio Free Asia) Myanmar Language 
Version broadcast some news items in which one was on the dissolving of the
State Law and Order Restoration Council administration. It was quite an
interesting story which was heavily spiced with fabrications, exaggerations
and total untruth. 
		(a) 	It also mentioned that the source of the news was from the diplomatic
			      	circle and the people in Yangon. 
		(b) 	It also mentioned that on the evening of 14  November barb-wired 
			barricades were put up in the crowded downtown areas and on the       
			night of 15 November Lt.Gen.Tun Kyi was being arrested with a 
			shoot-to-kill warrant if he resisted arrest.
		 (c) 	It also went on to say that several weapons were seized from 
			Lt.Gen.Tun Kyi and Lt.Gen.Kyaw Ba?s residence and that (30) 
			battalion officers loyal to them were being demoted. 
		 (d) 	It also accused Lt-Gen Tun Kyi of being the person who was 
			behind the bombing of Secretary-2, Lt-Gen Tin Oo?s residence in Yangon. 
		 (e) 	It also created a story that while Senior General Than Shwe and 
			Lt-Gen.Khin Nyunt were attending the summit in Malaysia there 
			was an attempted coup in Yangon. Another story stated 
			funnily that the attempted coup has been failed because of the 
			timely information  received by U Ne Win and U Sein Lwin. 
		  (f) 	It mentioned that there was a serious conflict between Secretary-1,
			Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt and Lt-Gen Sein Aung.  Then it went on to say 
			that the writer and movie director Tin Than Oo was Lt-Gen Sein Aung?s
				son-in-law and that legal action has been taken against Tin Than Oo. 			
(g) 	Finally, it concluded that  it broadcast with a story where the security
				troops when sent to search andd raid the residences the following 
	                numbers of motor vehicles and gold were seized:-
			(1)	Lt-Gen Tun Kyi	-(23) motor vehicles and (3) tons of gold.
			(2)	Lt-Gen Myint Aung	-(3) tons of gold and over (400) million worth
									  of jewellery.
			(3)	Lt-Gen Myo Nyunt	- (8) tons of gold bar.
			(4)	Lt-Gen Kyaw Ba	-(5.5) tons of gold, over (700) million worth 									
of  unrefined gold blocks, (44) motor 									  	  vehicles and (105)
apartment rooms.
			(5)	Lt-Gen Tun Kyi-	Over Kyats (600) million.
		It is also quite interesting and dissappointing to learn that Radio Free
Asia has become a  platform for broadcasting fabricated and distorted news to
its 
listeners. Anyhow, this piece of story has opened the eyes of its listeners
for they can now clearly judge the credibility of R.F.A.which now has proven
to stand for 
?Rumours and Fabrications for Asia. (R.F.A.)?