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- Subject: Thai military bank opens office in Rangoon, Burma
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- 01/22 0646 THAI MILITARY BANK OPENS OFFICE IN RANGOON, BURMA
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- RANGOON (JAN. 22) DPA - The Thai Military Bank of Bangkok, the first foreign
- bank to set up business in Burma in 30 years, Friday opened up a representative
- office in central Rangoon with the blessings of the central bank of Burma.
- "It is my sincere hope that the opening of this representative office will
- further strengthen the friendship and economic cooperation between our two
- countries," deputy governor certral bank of Burma U Kyaw Kyaw Maung said at
- the opening ceremony.
- TMB president Thanong Bidaya said the move was in line with Burma's open-door
- economic policy to attract investors to Burma, a country, he said, endowed with
- "plentiful natural resources and a high potential for economic growth".
- He said TMB has already set up a branch in Hong Kong and offices in Vietnam,
- Laos and Cambodia would open up in the next few months.
- "We shall study the business environment in Burma in the comingfew months and
- if conditions are favourable, our representive office will expand into a fully
- operational branch bank," he said.
- In 1990, Burmese military rulers abolished the former state monopoly of the
- banking sector and opened it up for participation by private enterprise, both
- Burmese and foreign.
- Burma had a strong private banking sector in the 1950s, with 14 Burmese and
- 10 foreign banks playing an active role in the economy. All these banks were
- nationalised in 1962.
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