NEWS - Australian Imprisoned for Dr

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Australian Imprisoned for Drugs in Myanmar

               Xinhua
               25-JUN-99

               YANGON (June 25) XINHUA - An Australian and three
               Myanmar youths were respectively sentenced to 10 years'
               imprisonment in connection with narcotic drug cases by a
               local township court in Yangon east county early this
month. 

               The sentence was passed by the Tharkayta township court
               on June 4, the Myanmar official evening newspaper the
City
               News reported Thursday. 

               The Australian and the other three persons were arrested
on
               February 15 this year while the authorities searched the
               house of one of the three Myanmar offenders in Tharkayta
               and found some narcotic drugs including heroin in their
               possession. 

               This is the first time that a foreigner has been punished
               under Myanmar's narcotic drug laws.