273 pearl lots to be sold at Mid-Year Gems Emporium

YANGON, 7 OCT—Altogether 1,436 gem merchants—701 foreigners from 145 companies of 11 countries and 735 locals from 305 companies—are attending the 2005 Mid-Year Gems Emporium being held at the Myanma Gems Mart on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road here.

The foreign merchants are 577 from the People’s Republic of China, four from Singapore, 90 from Thailand, ten from Japan, one from Sri Lanka, five from Canada, three from India, two from Republic of Korea, two from Italy, three from Australia and four from Malaysia.

Merchants at home and abroad observed jade, jewellery and pearl lots put on display there today.

Under the 2005 Mid-Year Gems Emporium programme, altogether 273 pearl lots including pearl lot No 253 which comprises 113 pearls of world market quality will be put on sale tomorrow.

Pearl lots of the 2005 Mid-Year Gems Emporium attract more foreigners than those of the previous emporia, and more foreign merchants will arrive here until 9 October.