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The following is a correct one. Please disregard my correction "read 9. 
Australia instead of 9. Austria." I screw up myself and didn't realized
until Ko Myo Aye pointed out. Thanks. Tun Myint. 

On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Conference 'reg.burma' wrote:

> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 95 01:45:19 EWT
> From: Conference 'reg.burma' <burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tmyint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Investments In Burma
> 
> From: Tun Myint <tmyint@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  
>  
>  
> Dear All:
>  
> The following table of ranking investors in Burma is from Oct. 12, 1995 
> issue of Far Eastern Economic Review. If you have any correction or 
> comment on this numbers, please share with us. It seems to me that FEER 
> omitted the annual offers from ongoing Pipline project from Unocal, 
> Texaco and Total (Fr). I refers to 2/10/95 issue of The Wall Street 
> Journal.
>  
> Investor            Year Commulative           $ Million
> 		    through Aug. 31    
>  
> 1. Britain     ------------------------------- 642
>  
> 2. Singapore   ---------------------------     548
>  
> 3. France      -----------------------         465
>  
> 4. Thailand    ---------------------           418
>  
> 5. U.S         ------------                    241
>  
> 6. Malaysia    ----------                      227
>  
> 7. Japan       -----                           107
>  
> 8. Netherlands ----                             83
>  
> 9. Austria     ---                              72
>  
> 10.Hongkong    --                               64
>  
> 11.S. Korea    --                               61
>  
> 12.Australia   -                                30
>  
> 13.Canada      -                                25
>  
> 14.Philippines .                                 7
>  
> 15.Bangladesh  .                                 3
>  
>  
> My comment on this is that it is surprising to see the U.S 
> position as the fifth in share of "foreign direct investment" 
> in Burma.  I am believing U.S is one among the top. I would 
> be happy if anyone could explain more about it. Would 
> you mind to explain what "foreign direct investment" 
> mean? Does it convey the numbers above are directly 
> invested in SLORC (government)? Or do those numbers exclude 
> the investments in private sectors?
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Tun Myint.                   
>  
>