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Bain & Associates  Inc.  LOBBYING FOR SLORC?
There ought to be a law!

Actually, there is a law -- or what do sanctions mean?!?

ABOUT THE LOBBYIST:

<His home address> (How about holding a protest in front of his house?)

Jackson Charles Bain
923 Priscilla Lane
Alexandria, Va 22308

Birthdate: 4/1944

<Article from The Washington Times, September 15, 1997>

Bain & Associates  Inc., based in Alexandria, has been retained by Zaykabar 
Co.  Ltd., a real estate development and manufacturing company in Rangoon, 
Burma, to provide international and U.S.  media relations for the business 
and cultural interests of Burma.

ABOUT ZAYKABAR CO. LTD. AND ITS OWNER KHIN SHWE:

<From Xinhua News Agency, August 28, 1995>

Myanma-Indonesian Cigarette Factory Inaugurated

   the first myanma-indonesian tobacco joint venture --sampoerna cigarette 
factory was inaugurated here on sunday.  the sampoerna cigarette factory in 
yangon, a joint venture of  zaykabar  co ltd. of myanmar and sampoerna group 
of  indonesia, was established last november with a capital of 32.8 million 
us dollars.  the factory plans to export 1.5 million cartons of cigarettes 
per month.  the opening ceremony was attended by first secretary of the 
myanmar state law and order restoration council lieutenant general khin 
nyunt and minister for industry-1 lieutenant general sein aung.  it is the 
first investment in myanmar by indonesian companies.

<From Asian Wall Street Journal, March 20, 1995>

Khin Shwe's Experience As Businessman Reflects Burman's Shaky Transition To 
Private Enterprise

By Barry Wain

[Abstract]

After almost three decades of isolation and socialism that reduced Burma 
(Myanmar) to stagnant backwater in economically vibrant region, the country 
is stirring as it absorbs a first wave of foreign investment; Khin Shwe is 
in forefront of local entrepreneurs scrambling to grab piece of action and 
relearn  art of private enterprise; Khin Shwe's holdings include  Zaykabar 
 Co,  Zaykabar  Travel Services and Mya Yeik Nyo Hotels Group; table (L)

<From (The Late) Asia Times, May 19, 1997>

Yangon moving to the suburbs

By Stephen Brookes (him!  Surprise, surprise.)

[excerpt]

   Developers said they were aiming for a mix of middle, upper and lower 
class housing, and were building commercial facilities like shops, banks, 
restaurants  and post offices. FMI City will include a sports stadium, 
Nawaday Garden boasts  a community center and Mingalardon Garden City has 
commissioned golf course architects Nelson &amp; Haworth to build an 18-hole 
course in the center  of the development.

   The Mingalardon project, which will be adjacent to a massive new 
industrial park being built by Japan's Mitsui, is the brainchild of Myanmar 
developer  Khin Shwe.  "This will be a pioneer city in Myanmar," he said, 
guiding a visitor around the still-virgin grounds. Despite the fact that the 
project was only launched in February and no houses have been built or 
infrastructure installed, more than 500 of the 1,000 sq m lots had been 
bought, he said.

   "We sold the first 150 lots in two days," he said. "People have money to 
invest, and this is a good investment. We're right near the Mitsui 
industrial zone, there will be an international-standard golf course, and 
the International School is relocating here." He said he expected most 
buyers to be  foreigners seeking a high standard of living.

<From the Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1996>

No Longer Burma, Still A Tyranny; Eight Years After Its Military Rulers 
Re-Christened It Myanmar, The; Southeast Asian Nation Is Busily Luring 
Foreign Money. But Most Of Its; People Remain Impoverished, And Dissent Is 
Uneasily Tolerated At Best.

By Scott Kraft, Times Staff Writer

[excerpt]

So, who is taking advantage of this new Myanmar? Meet  Khin Shwe,  owner of 
a hotel and construction business whose government concessions helped him 
post revenue of $ 60 million last year, four times what it took in two years 
earlier. Shwe now owns a large home, three new cars and 14 thoroughbred 
horses.

"This government believes in me," said Shwe, a rotund 45-year-old, relaxing 
in the lobby of one of his hotels. "They are honest and straight. But we 
have to give them hard work."

<From Asia, Inc., November, 1995>

[excerpt]

SLORC is much better than the old civilian and socialist governments, 
insists  Khin Shwe,  44, a hotel developer in capital Rangoon, now 
officially called Yangon (see Bucking the Odds in Burma, Asia, Inc., 
September 1993). Life can be  difficult for people in the city because 
inflation is over 30 percent, but the paddy price is up and peasants are 
happy.

<From the South China Morning Post, July 27, 1995>

The two faces of Burma

by William Barnes

[excerpt]

    THIS past fortnight a frail, elderly man has been a regular visitor to a 
dilapidated house and rambling garden on the edge of Rangoon's Inya Lake. A 
few  hundred metres away a portly, robust gentleman sits in the splendour of 
one of his new hotels.

    These two men represent Burma's two faces: one, a deceptively determined 
political activist. The other, an ambitious and wealthy friend of the 
military regime that has ruled the country for three decades.

    U Moe Thu was arrested in 1989 in the same sweep that picked up Aung San 
Suu Kyi and held in solitary confinement for three years before being 
released.

    The heroine of the democracy movement was famously released earlier this 
month after being detained for nearly six years in her lakeside house.

    U  Khin Shwe's  three hotels in Rangoon are joint ventures with the 
military government. He is planning more and rues the country's poor image 
overseas that  deters foreign investors.

    U Moe Thu appears bemused by the speed of current events. "It's a 
guessing game. I was surprised by her release so the next step is a puzzle 
to me," he said.

    The former committee member of Aung San Suu Kyi's national league for 
democracy spends most afternoons in a tiny, open shop-house editing his 
business magazine Danaa (Word).

    "The future is complicated. But they (the regime) certainly can't ignore 
her," he said.

    U  Khin Shwe  has had neither the time nor the inclination to ponder the 
country's political future as he has plotted how to steer his construction, 
trading and hotel group towards international recognition.

    "Over the last three years the money has really been rolling in. 
Sometimes I wonder where it's all come from," he said.

    Even before the recent Burmese boom, U  Khin Shwe  said he had pulled 
himself up by his bootstraps with years of grindingly hard work in 
construction  and trade.

    But it was only after 26 years of the old dictator Ne Win's disastrous 
"Burmese way to socialism" was buried by the mass protests of 1988 and 1989 
that his fortune began to take off.

    "In the 1980s it was very difficult to talk to the government - they 
just didn't understand how business worked. Now it's different - they are 
very receptive," said U  Khin Shwe.

    Ironically, the political protests six years ago have helped make well 
 -connected entrepreneurs like him much richer.

    Yet now, although U  Khin Shwe  claims to be apolitical, he finds that 
his country's poor international image is severely stunting the growth of 
his business empire.

    He is, like his older fellow countryman U Moe Thu, a puzzled man. "I 
want us all to have more money. If I am successful then many other people 
can make a good living, too. But international investors are cautious. Even 
McDonald's turned me down."

* * *

<From the Chicago Tribune, July 3, 1995>

Unable to compete with foreign companies coming in to build megaroom hotels, 
 Burmese businessman  Khin Shwe  says he has sought out old, unique 
properties for renovation.

   Last year he opened the 15-room Mya Yeik Nyo Royal, the magnificent 
former mansion of Chartered Bank managers set atop Rangoon's second-highest 
hill.

   Staying there, or at one of several surrounding bungalows, is truly a 
step back into the world of lawn parties, gin and tonics at sundown and 
stiff upper lips.

   But on the grounds,  Khin Shwe  has had a large mural painted that 
showcases  Burma's natural and man-made wonders, including, naturally, his 
own hotel. Rangoon itself is depicted as a phalanx of skyscrapers, and could 
easily be mistaken for Manhattan.

<From the Associated Press, April 26, 1995>

Among Last to Opt for Free Enterprise, Burma Suffers Widening Rich-Poor Gap

by Denis D. Gray

[excerpt]

    Khin Shwe  earned dlrs 50 a month as an engineer when Burma embraced 
socialism and treated foreign investors like pariahs. Now, he's making 
millions  from hotels, construction deals and overseas trading.
 . . .
   ''Six years ago, I never dreamed all this could happen. Now I have a 
house, a car, money, everything,'' says  Khin Shwe,  45, at one of his 
luxurious hotels overlooking the fast-modernizing Burmese capital.

   He and Pun are among the first wealthy entrepreneurs in one of the last 
Asian countries to turn to free enterprise. But their small moneyed elite 
towers above an impoverished land where the gap between rich and poor is 
rapidly rising.



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