Myanmar to Allow Access to Internet

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Subject: Myanmar to Allow Access to Internet???

what international sanctions, as far as i understand there are  not
international sanctions outside the us selective purchasing laws for
federal and local collectivities, states, townships and cities, or the
us federal sanctions signed by clinton april 22 1997 applying only to us
based companies. correct or not correct? ergo, any non us company can go
into burma and do business. 

Rangoon Post Co-Editor wrote:
> 
> NOTE: Who REALLY gets the access?  It will probally be monitored.  BUT
> the access company will be shut-down for violating international
> sanctions.
> 
> Myanmar to Allow Access to Internet
> 
>                Xinhua
>                31-MAR-99
> 
>                YANGON (April 1) XINHUA - The Myanmar government will
>                allow access to the Internet, which will be used more
> widely
>                in education, health and electronic commerce, said a
>                high-ranking communications official.
> 
>                Addressing a seminar here Wednesday on economic benefit
>                through electronic commerce technology on the Internet,
>                sponsored by a private company, Brigadier-General Win
> Tin,
>                minister of communications, posts and telegraph, said,
> "The
>                world becomes a global village due to information
> technology
>                (IT). We are now in a knowledge era beyond IT era."
> 
>                Myanmar has been trying to formulate a master plan for
> the
>                development of the country's IT, importing annually tens
> of
>                thousands of computers with very little tariff and
> classifying
>                them as education aids and priority items.
> 
>                The access to the Internet for the private sector is also
> being
>                striven.
> 
>                Meanwhile, Myanmar computer associations are also trying
>                to get support from regional and international
> counterparts,
>                especially those from Singapore and Malaysia, to enhance
>                the country's systematic IT development.
> 

>                Myanmar held the first symposium on IT initiative in June
> last
>                year to promote the development and advancement of
>                computer technology in the country.
> 
>                For systematic development of IT, the Myanmar government
>                promulgated the Computer Technology Development Law in
>                September 1996 and later founded the Computer
>                Technology Development Council.
> 
>                In 1998, three associations of Myanmar computer
>                technicians, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts were also
>                respectively formed.