BBC-Suzuki to build motor-cycle fac

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Tuesday, October 13, 1998 Published at 09:54 GMT 10:54 UK 

Suzuki to build motor-cycle factory in Burma 

The Suzuki company of Japan is to build a factory in Burma making cars and
motorcycles. 

The company says the ten-million-dollar joint venture with a Burmese
state-run enterprise Myanmar Automobile and Diesel Engine Industries aims
to begin production in the first half of next year. 

When the factory is fully operational, annual output will total
twenty-five-thousand motorcycles and three-thousand small cars. 

The deal setting up the joint venture was signed in Rangoon today by the
president of the Japanese company, Osamu Suzuki, and a deputy premier in
the Burmese military government vice-Admiral Maung Maung Khin. 



>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service