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Dr. Sein Win remarks on Technical Advisory Network of Burma at "Burma Day" organized by Norwegian Burma Council on 26 September 2000 in Oslo, Norway.

THE INTERNAL CHESS GAME IN RANGOON AND THE PAKISTAN-INDIA-CHINA TANGO Info-Birmanie looks at the growing rifts between top generals within the SPDC and analyzes further eveidence shown by the recent visits of these generals to regional capitals.

A victim of the Internal Chess Game? Dominic Faulder writes in Asiaweek, "Surprisingly, the biggest recent casualty in the SPDC's battle with the truth has been one of its own brighter rising stars. At a business seminar in July, the deputy minister of national planning and development, Brigadier General Zaw Tun, spoke with a candor possibly unprecedented in a serving officer since General Ne Win staged his coup in 1962."

Editorial of Irrawaddy and Response from NCGUB