Microsoft Corp ဥကၠဌ ဘီလ္ဂိတ္ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံလာမည္

ျမန္မာႏွင့္ အေမရိကန္တို႔၏ ဆက္ဆံေရး ပိုမိုတိုးတက္ေကာင္းမြန္လာျခင္း ျပယုဂ္တစ္ခုအျဖစ္ Microsoft Corp ဥကၠဌ ဘီလ္ဂိတ္အပါအဝင္ အေမရိကန္ စီးပြားေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႕သည္ မၾကာမီ ျမန္မာျပည္သို႔ လာေရာက္ၾကမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာ့စက္မႈလုပ္ငန္း အရာရွိတို႔က ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔က ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္ဟု သိရသည္။ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႕မွာ ေဖေဖၚဝါရီလအတြင္း လာေရာက္ၾကမည္ ျဖစ္ၿပီး အေမရိကန္၏ စီးပြားေရး ဒဏ္ခတ္ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈမ်ားၾကားမွ ယခုကဲ့သို႔ ေရာက္ရွိလာၾကျခင္းမွာထူးျခားေနေၾကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာ့အစိုးရသစ္၏ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးမ်ား ေဖၚေဆာင္ေနခ်ိန္ႏွင့္ တိုက္ဆိုင္ေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ျမန္မာအရာရွိတို႔အဆိုအရ အဆိုပါကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႕သည္ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံုရန္ရွိၿပီး ျပည္တြင္းမွ အေမရိကန္အစိုးရ၏ ဒဏ္ခတ္ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈ ခံထားရေသာ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္မ်ားအပါအဝင္ ျမန္မာ့ စီးပြားေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္လည္း ေတြ႕ဆံုးေဆြးေႏြးၾကမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

By Aung Hla Tun

YANGON | Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:41am EST

(Reuters) - A delegation of American business leaders, including Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates, will visit Myanmar soon, Myanmar industry officials said on Wednesday, another sign of strengthening U.S. ties with the long-isolated state despite sanctions.

The visit would come less than three months after Hillary Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Myanmar in more than 50 years and said Washington stood ready to support reforms in the country and possibly lift sanctions.

The trip, expected in February, is unusual given the presence of U.S. sanctions but it coincides with the most dramatic reforms in the resource-rich, former British colony since the military took power in what was then known as Burma in a 1962 coup.

"A team of high-level American businessmen including Bill Gates is due to visit," said one business leader and senior member of the Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industries (MFCCI) who declined to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

A spokesman for Gates was not immediately available for comment.

Business executives, mostly from Asia, have swarmed into the commercial capital Yangon in recent weeks to scout for investment opportunities in the country of 60 million people, one of the last frontier markets in Asia.

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Another industry official said the U.S. executives would meet President Thein Sein, visit tourist spots and spend time with local business leaders, many of whom face targeted sanctions by the U.S. government.

Some investment analysts have compared Myanmar's state of development to Vietnam in 1994 when American sanctions against Hanoi were lifted. But Myanmar's location is considered more strategic, nestled between rising powers India and China

with ports on the Indian Ocean.

Before late last year, when reforms gathered steam, China was emerging as the dominant investor in the country's resources -- from natural gas to timber and precious gems.

Chinese workers are building a multi-billion-dollar pipeline, hydro-power dams and highway projects that underpin more than $14 billion of pledged Chinese investment in Myanmar's 2010/11 (April-March) fiscal year, taking total foreign direct investment promises to $20 billion from just $300 million a year before, official data show.

Executives from Japanese companies have also taken an interest in recent weeks. Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano this week leads a delegation that includes officials from Hitachi Ltd, Toshiba Corp, Mitsui & Co Ltd, Itochu Corp, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp and Marubeni Corp.

Last week, U.S. billionaire investor George Soros visited the country and said he had agreed to set up an official base for his philanthropic work in Myanmar after meetings with the country's president and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar has been closed off to the world for nearly half a century of often-brutal authoritarian rule. The former military regime handed power in March to a civilian government stacked with former generals who surprised the world by embarking on a program of reforms and strengthening relations with the West.

Myanmar, however, remains vastly underdeveloped and is one of Asia's poorest countries after decades of isolation, sanctions and economic mismanagement by its former military rulers.

(Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Jason Szep

and Robert Birsel

)

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/11/us-myanmar-usa-gates-idUSTRE80A0P020120111

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