July 14, 2004: "Almost furniture and lacquer factories are ordered to close down after the government rigidly pressure them to make logging permission although the leaders of Furniture Factory Association compromises with SPDC authorities in Three Pagoda Pass town to reduce tax for permission, accordingly to a member of the Association. ?The authorities want us to pay for the logs that we use in the factories as concession or permission cost again. But we don?t want to pay because we bought the logs that already paid tax for their concessions,” said Mr. Nai Tin Win, a Furniture Factory Association member..."