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>Far Eastern Economic Review
>June 07, 2001.
>Court to Hear Burma Brewery Case

>The International Court of Justice has decided to hear the controversial 
>case of the Burmese government's 1998 nationalization of Mandalay Brewery. 
>On May 16, the court, which is the United Nations' principal judicial 
>organ and has its seat in The Hague, appointed a three-member tribunal of 
>international law experts from the United States, Britain and France. The 
>case is scheduled to open later this month. Yaung Chi Oo Trading, the 
>Singapore-based company that invested $6.3 million in the Mandalay Brewery 
>joint venture with the government, had vainly attempted to get its case 
>heard by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' dispute-settlement 
>mechanism. The ICJ's willingness to hear the case appears to have made 
>certain quarters of Burma's ruling junta skittish. On May 31, military 
>intelligence official Gen. Kyaw Min, recently assigned the task of 
>striking a settlement, made Yaung Chi Oo's managing director, Win Win Nu, 
>a do-or-die offer: Return to Burma and present her case in person to 
>intelligence chief Lt.-Gen. Khin Nyunt, or be banished permanently. Until 
>it was nationalized, Mandalay Brewery was Burma's largest taxpayer.
(from Tin Kyi's "Burma-related News" for 7 June 2001)



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<blockquote type=3Dcite class=3Dcite cite>The International Court of Justice
has decided to hear the controversial case of the Burmese government's
1998 nationalization of Mandalay Brewery. On May 16, the court, which is
the United Nations' principal judicial organ and has its seat in The
Hague, appointed a three-member tribunal of international law experts
from the United States, Britain and France. The case is scheduled to open
later this month. Yaung Chi Oo Trading, the Singapore-based company that
invested $6.3 million in the Mandalay Brewery joint venture with the
government, had vainly attempted to get its case heard by the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations' dispute-settlement mechanism. The ICJ's
willingness to hear the case appears to have made certain quarters of
Burma's ruling junta skittish. On May 31, military intelligence official
Gen. Kyaw Min, recently assigned the task of striking a settlement, made
Yaung Chi Oo's managing director, Win Win Nu, a do-or-die offer: Return
to Burma and present her case in person to intelligence chief Lt.-Gen.
Khin Nyunt, or be banished permanently. Until it was nationalized,
Mandalay Brewery was Burma's largest taxpayer.</blockquote>(from Tin
Kyi's &quot;Burma-related News&quot; for 7 June 2001)<br><br>
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