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Inofrmation Sheet No.B-1217 (I)



                               MYANMAR INFORMATION COMMITTEE
                                                            YANGON

                                                Inofrmation Sheet
                                        No.B-1217 (I)      12th January, 2000

(1)  Standard Medicines to be Distributed

    184 kinds of standard medicines manufactured by Myanmar Pharmaceutical 
Factory will distribute to the public at reasonable price to stop unlawful 
pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprises, protect the public from the danger 
of bogus medicines and expose and prohibit unlawful pharmaceutical 
enterprises. Medicines copying the ones manufactured by the State owned 
pharmaceutical factory is now threatening the public health, and therefore, 
it is required to ward off the danger of the unlawful pharmaceutical 
enterprises as a national concern.

(2) 504 Acres of Poppy Plantations Destroyed in Pinlaung

    The State Peace and Development Council is resolved to eradicate narcotic 
drugs as national duty, combined teams comprising members of Tatmadaw 
(Defence Services) columns, local intelligence units and Myanmar Police Force 
have been destroying illegal poppy plantations in remote areas of Shan State 
with the arrangements of local military commands.  Pa-O National 
Organizations (NPO) of Shan State (South) Special Region 6, together with 
local people, destroyed 504 acres of illegal poppy plantations in Pinlaung 
Township, Shan State (South), from 17 to 25 December 1999. 

(3)  UMEHL Gems, Jade Sales

    Gem and jade sales of Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited 
continued on 11 January at Myanmar Gems Mart in Yangon from 9 am to 5 pm. A 
total of 478 local merchants and 56 foreign merchants checked the gems and 
jade on 1 January.

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