Australian Investment 1998-2000 (r)

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Dear Dawn Star,
Here is the list collected by ACFOA , seems none of them have pulled out
yet. Pls update it if you find more recent info.  mmt


  AUSTRALIAN COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS IN BURMA



1. Bonlac Foods Ltd.
Ph. 9270 0922 (Head Office)
Customer Service 1300 367 392
Level 7, 636 St Kilda Rd.
Business with Burma Exports dairy products.
Products on Aust. Market include: Bodalla, Bega, Diploma, Perfect Cheese and
Western Star.
2. Wing Yick Trading Pty.Ltd.
Ph. (02) 9550 9133
Business with Burma: Imports seafood (mostly prawns) from Burma for the
Australia market. Sells seafood to many restaurants, mainly in Sydney.
2 of these include
Belrose Chinese Restaurant Ph. (02) 9452 3089
Hohowon Restaurant Ph (02) 9452 3089
3. Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation
Ph. (02) 6452 0222
Projects in Burma include: *Around '86 Western highway project (funded with
Australia aid $$$). Went from Irrawaddy plain into the mountains.
   *'87 Tank irrigation project (funded by the World Bank)
   *' 86-'88 resurfacing roads Pegu-Mandalay  ( crushed rocks
         came from the Prison Dept.)
   *Proposal in '92 to supply steel for the building of Bayintaung
bridge. Proposal rejected.
*'97 Spares, plant and energy project. (?)
(Not dealing with Burma currently but no policy found to prevent them from
doing so in the future.)
4. Ruth Consolidated Industries
Ph. (02) 9550 9130
Business with Burma: Export  veterinary products/
5. Pan Australia Drugs
Ph. (02) 9873 2510
Business with Burma: Export drugs.
6. Classic Oriental Tours
Ph. 1800 221 582
Business with Burma : Run guided tours there.
7. Peregrine Travel
Ph. 9663 8611
258 Londsale St.
Melbourne, 3000
Business with Burma : Run guided tours there.
8. Intrepid Travel
Ph. 9486 0460
PO Box 2781
DC Fitzroy, 3065
Business with Burma: Run guided tours there.
9. Veitsch Radex Deider corp.
Ph (02) 9983 0288
Business with Burma: Sells refactories material and technology for the
mining industry.
Sales are aproximately $500000 per year
10. Longbeach Gold Oil Ltd.
( 02) 9233 6022
82 elizabeth St.
sydney 2000
Busimess with Burma, Have an interet in oil. Were in partnership with
Taiwanese oil company that pulle dout of Burma so Longreach have nothing
going at the mometn but are still interested .
11. Pacific Arc exploration
451 gregory terrace
Spring hill
Brisbane
4006, QLD
Business with Burma: mining. It is unverified if they are still exploring at
present.
12. Broken Hill
Propriety Company Ltd.
BHP house
140 William street
Melbourne.
3000 Vic
Business with Burma: Has mining interests , unvereified if dealing with
Burma at present.
13. Kailis Holding PLC
P O box 382
Freemantle, 6160
Business with Burma,
Petroleum  rigthts and listed in Burma, Burma yellow pages 1997
Unverified if dealing with Burma at present.
14. Pacrim Energy NL
451 Gregory Terrace
Spring hill , Brisbane
4006 , QLD
Business with Burma : Signed  contracts with MOGE ( Myanmar Oil and gas
Enterprise)
For oil exploration , the company expect to invest 8 million and plans to
begin drilling by April 1999 ( investor responsibility research center)
15. worldcare travel insurance
49 Sherwood RD.
Toowong , 4066
Business with Burma
Signed an MOU with SLORC in 1995 for Medicare and evacuation coverage for
visitor to Burma ( IRRC)
16. Mcconell dowell Ltd.
Level 5 , 627 Chapel Street
South Melbourne
3141, Vic
Business with Burma
Gas pipeline


-----Original Message-----
To: W. Kesavatana-Dohrs <dohrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx <burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, September 25, 1999 10:37 PM
Subject: Australian Investment 1998-2000


>If anyone has an uptodate list of australian company investment in Burma
>since 1998 through to today, it would be appropriate to post it. thank
>you, ds
>>
>> MyaBuzz
>> Business news from Myanmar (24 September 1999)
>>
>> C O N T E N T S
>> 0924-01 Interest Rates Cut
>> 0924-02 Regional Seminar On Economic Cooperation
>> 0924-03 Myanmar-Belarus Diplomatic Ties
>> 0924-04 Season Of Exhibits In Yangon
>> 0924-05 Local Co. Forks Over US$ 300,000 for Community Dev't
>> 0924-06 German Industrialist Ass'n Holds Workshop
>> 0924-07 Myanmar Statistics
>> ==============================================
>> Advertisement: Hard and Soft Wood Available for Export from Myanmar.
>> Interested parties especially in the whole logs export, kindly e-mail to
>> Mr. Chew at mmigroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ==============================================
>> 0924-01 Interest Rates Cut
>> **Myanmar Industrial Development Bank is cutting its interest rate by 2%
on
>> loans starting from 1st October this year.
>>
>> The current interest rate is 17% on long and intermediate term loans. The
>> interest rate cut is particularly welcoming for the industrialists.
>>
>> 0924-02 Regional Seminar On Economic Cooperation
>> **Thai Foreign Ministry and two Thai universities, Thammasat and
>> Chulalongkorn are sponsoring a 2 days seminar on economic cooperation and
>> future task for member nations of the BIMST-EC. The seminar will start in
>> the Thai capital Bangkok on 23rd September. Myanmar has sent an
Information
>> Ministry Official to attend the seminar.
>>
>> The BIMST-EC group is formed by Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and
>> Thailand.
>>
>> Myanmar is also posed to join the proposed economic growth zone together
>> with the
>> Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan. Main concept of the
>> establishing growth zone is for greater cross-border cooperation amongst
>> the countries in the zone.
>>
>> 0924-03 Myanmar-Belarus Diplomatic Ties
>> **Myanmar and the former Soviet Republic of Belarus established
diplomatic
>> relations at Ambassadorial level from 22nd September, a press communiqué
by
>> the Myanmar's Foreign Ministry states.
>>
>> Belarus is a traditionally industrial state; its main exports are
>> industrial goods, foodstuffs and chemicals. It imports mainly fuel,
natural
>> gas, industrial raw materials and textiles. Myanmar imports mainly
>> machineries from abroad and its chief exports are teak, pulses, marine
>> products and textiles.
>>
>> Earlier this month Myanmar and another European country Croatia
established
>> diplomatic ties. Also recently Myanmar and three other former Soviet
>> republics Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Georgia started diplomatic
relations
>> at the Ambassadorial level.
>>
>> 0924-04 Season Of Exhibits In Yangon
>> **After receiving encouraging signals from the earlier trade fairs,
>> organizers are arranging for a range of trade exhibitions in Yangon.
>>
>> The exhibition organizer, Quartz International Company Limited is
arranging
>> for Fashion Wear, Design & Consumer Products Fair '99 in Yangon on
November
>> 4 to 7,1999. The exhibition will display the range of design wear and
>> consumer products in 123 booths. Companies from Japan, Singapore, Taiwan,
>> China and India are expected to participate in the event.
>>
>> This September, Yangon staged two International trade fairs:
International
>> Cosmetic & Consumer Products Expo'99 and International Exhibition
>> Yangon'99.  Both fairs were deemed highly successful based on the high
>> attendance it gathered.
>>
>> 0924-05 Local Co. Forks Over US$ 300,000 for Community Dev't
>> **International Fisheries (Taninthayi) Limited, participated in road
>> pavement works in the southern coastal province of Taninthayi. On 20th
>> September, the company inaugurated 12 bridges on the highway linking
>> Launglon to Kyauknimaw in the Taninthayi province. For the construction
of
>> bridges the company spent over 10 million Kyats (US$ 312,500).
>>
>> The Launglon - Kyauknimaw Highway will be the part of the national
highway
>> linking Yangon and the southern most town of Kawthaung. Kawthaung is
>> Myanmar's southern border town to southern Thailand.
>>
>> 0924-06 German Industrialist Ass'n Holds Workshop
>> **A 3 days planning workshop on the business information and database
>> management system was started in Yangon on 22nd September. The workshop
is
>> jointly sponsored by Myanmar's Chamber of Commerce and Singapore based
>> German Small Industrialists Association.
>>
>> 0924-07 Myanmar Statistics
>> **Every Friday Myabuzz will feature figures related to investment &
trade.
>> >From time to time, Myabuzz will also include general Myanmar statistics
>> that will aid the investor in his decision-making duties:
>>
>> 1. Over 1,200 megawatts of electricity will be generated from the four
>> power plants in (1) Shweli northern Shan province bordering China; (2)
Mon
>> province at the south and (3) Bago and (4) Mandalay provinces at the
>> central part of the country.
>>
>> 2. Forest Products Joint Venture Corporation Ltd is selling over 3,700
tons
>> of teak logs through sealed bidding.   Myanmar teak is internationally
>> popular for its quality. There are about 1.5 million acres of teak forest
>> in Myanmar.  Teak products are equally popular among local buyers.
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