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Bangkok Post(16/9/99)



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<font size=5><b>Investment nod <br>
M</font></b><font size=3>ae Sot-Burma has given approval for Thai
investors to set up factories in an industrial estate in Myawaddy border
township, Panithi Tangpati, president of Tak provincial chamber of
commerce, said yesterday.<br>
Potential industries include furniture manufacture, gem cutting,
leatherware and textiles.<br>
Mr Panithi advised investors to study Burmese investment law and
procedures, investment incentives and infrastructure before committing
themselves.<br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5>Singing activist
appears in court</font><font size=7> <br>
</font><font size=5><i>Goldwyn expected to be charged today <br>
</font></i><font size=3>British human rights activist Rachel Goldwyn
appeared briefly in a Burmese court yesterday for the first time since
she was arrested after a protest in Rangoon last week.<br>
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After a five-minute hearing, a cpurt in Rangoon's notorious Insein jail
adjourned her case until this morning on learning a defence consul
engaged by British diplomat's was unavailable.<br>
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Ms Goldwyn, 281 from London, was arrested eight days ago after she tied
herself to a lamppost and sang a revol- utionary song in a downtown
Rangoon market ahead of a. planned dissident uprising.<br>
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Witnesses said Ms Goldwyn, dressed in a blue T-shirt and orange sarong
and wearing the sandlewood make-up often used by Burmese women, appeared
solemn when she was led into the court by two female police
officers.<br>
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A presiding,judge said she was being detained under Burma's Emergency
Provisions Act under which offenders can face a jail term of seven years
and a fine. <br>
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Ms Goldwyn was not expected to be formally charged until today. <br>
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The hearing was attended by British diplomats and local journalists.
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Embassy officials finally secured per- mission to visit Ms Goldwyn for
the first tline on Monday and said she was in good spirits and had been
given<b> </b>access to a doctor.<br>
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An embassy official was also due yesterday to visit Briton James Mawd-
sley, who was jailed two weeks ago for 17 years after his third arrest in
the country in two years. <br>
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Officials had been trying to win access to Mawdsley, who also holds an
Australian passport since his arrest. <br>
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A consular official who travelled &quot;to northern Shan State to see him
last week was turned away. <br>
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Burma's military government is accused of appalling human rights abu- ses
by many foreign states and is the target of a well-organised and vocal
campaign by exiled dissidents and foreign activists,. <br>
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