NEWS - Myanmar Revokes Licenses of (r)

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Subject: Re: NEWS - Myanmar Revokes Licenses of 2 Tourism Companies

Whats the real story here? Why the revokes, didnt pay the death taxes?
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Rangoon Post Co-Editor wrote:
> 
> Myanmar Revokes Licenses of 2 Tourism Companies
> 
>                Xinhua
>                07-JUL-99
> 
>                YANGON (July 7) XINHUA - The Myanmar tourism
>                authorities Wednesday revoked the licensees of two
> private
>                tourism companies that allegedly violated the rules and
>                regulations of the country's hotels and tourism law.
> 
>                The two companies are the Everest W Travels and Tours
>                Co. Ltd. and the New Butterfly Travel Services, sources
> at
>                the Myanmar Directorate of Hotels and Tourism Services
>                said Wednesday.
> 
>                In February last year, a total of 135 local private
> tourism
>                companies had their licenses revoked for the same reason.
> 
>                There are now one foreign company, 12 joint ventures and
>                508 local private companies running tourism services in
> the
>                country.
> 
>                There were 21 foreign-invested hotels and 439
>                local-invested motels, hotels and inns at the end of
> March
>                this year, according to official statistics.
> 
>                Other official statistics show that at the end of April
> this year,
>                foreign investment in hotels and tourism projects in
> Myanmar
>                amounted to 1.1 billion U.S. dollars.
> 
>                A total of 340,123 foreign tourists came to Myanmar in
> 1998,
>                the statistics show. (DOES THIS INCLUDE THE 18
> PRO-DEMOCRACY PEOPLE THAT THEY ARRESTED?)