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Information Sheet N0.A-0541(I)



                                     Information Sheet

                         N0.A-0541(I)                     6th August 1998 

(1) 		UMEHL Gems, Jade Sale Continues

		The Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd on 5 August continued its ninth
gems and jade sale at Myanma Gems Emporium on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, from 9 am
to 5 pm. A total of 467 local and foreign merchants viewed the gems.
		
(2) 		Phakant Anti-Drug Squad Seizes Heroin, Opium, Phensedyl in Six  Cases
		A combined team including members of Myitkyina Special Anti-Drug Squad,
Defence Services Intelligence Unit and Myanmar Police Force seized narcotic
drugs in Phakant Township during July. The team, acting on a tip-off , raided
the house of Ma Nang Long Kham, Ma Nang Aye Hswe, Phakant Township, on 4 July.
They seized 36 bottles of phensedyl 3.6 litres with cash from the sale of
phensedyl. On 7 July, the authorities, acting on a tip-off, searched Aik Kyai,
and Yang Ei on the road of Mawshan Village, Phakant Township.  They seized
heroin weighing 0.196 kilo from the culprits? soap boxes.  On 9 July, the team
searched Maung Shein in Seikmu Ward, Phakant Township.  The authorities seized
opium weighing 4.63 kilos from Maung Shein?s bag.  On 22 July, the team
searched Ma Khong Lura, on the road of Mawwan Ward and seized 32 bottles of
phensedyl 3.2 litres from her bag. The anti-drug squad seized four cases of
narcotic drugs including 0.196 kilo of heroin, 4.63 kilos of opium and 6.38
litres of phensedyl and three men and three women who related in the cases in
July under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotrophic Substances Law at Phakant
Police Station.

			OFFICE CALLS IN YANGON ON  5 AUGUST

(A)		Minister for Mines received Chairman of Padaeng Industry Co Ltd of
Thailand Mr Arsa Sarasin, former minister for foreign affairs, and party at
his office.

(B)		Minister for Industry-1 received Corporation President Mr Lin Lai Ypu and
party of Yunnan Machinery and Equipment Import and Export of the People?s
Republic of China and on separate occasion received Senior Engineer Mr Xie Guo
Hua and party of Nanjing Cement Design and Research Institute of PRC.

(C)		Minister for Transport received Chairman Dato Capt A Sufian and party of
Global Maritime Ventures Berhad (GMVB) at his office.

(D)		Deputy Minister for Commerce  received Commendatore Mr Michael Martinez
and party of Engineering Consulting Construction Company of Italy at his
office.  They discussed economic and investment matters.	
	
		This office is reproducing a copy of the letter sent to the Editor Column of
Bangkok Newspaper, the Nation by Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok refuting the
allegation appeared in the Nation.

		                MERELY ORDINARY TV ANTENNAS

Sir
		Allow me to put up a small rejoinder to the news report entitled . ?Signals
at Burma Embassy? which appeared in the Nation on 30-7-98. The Nation quoted
Jane?s Defence weekly.

		Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok and elsewhere, are not operating signals
intelligence stations big or small and we have no intention of doing so in the
future.  Myanmar Embassies and their offices of military, naval and air
attaches are established to foster closer relations with their host countries
and not to operate signals intelligence stations. Myanmar Embassies are not to
be categorized with certain embassies which might be involved in operating
signals intelligence stations.

		Myanmar and Thailand are not enemies.  They are peace loving peoples and
mechanisms for negotiation are in place to settle any problem that might
arise.  We do not need signal intelligence stations to spy on each other.

		Whatever antennas used and seen on the roof of the Embassy?s military, naval
and air attache office in Bangkok are merely ordinary TV antennas and this can
be confirmed even by the man-on-the street.  We earnestly hope that the Nation
refrains from publishing similar newsitem in the future which could create
misunderstanding between nations.  News media should check and verify the
veracity of the news before they are published.

Myanmar Embassy
Bangkok

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