India has frozen the sale and transfer of all arms to the Burmese government, a decision following the junta’s brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations led by Buddhist monks in September.
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India has put all sale and transfer of arms to Myanmar on hold. The decision follows the suppression of pro-democracy protests in that country, South Block officials told HT.
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The Indian press reported on Monday that a senior Burmese general met top leaders of the Indian Army in Delhi to negotiate the sale of additional military hardware to the junta-led nation.
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Burma’s State Peace and Development Council has reportedly purchased military equipment from South Korea and India to bolster its forces, according to two reports in the past month. At the same time, it is gearing up for three different dry season offensives against ethnic opposition groups.
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Questions from Kennametal Inc. shareholders were the focal point Tuesday at the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting.
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Russia’s biggest arms trader, Rosoboronexport, is planning to open an office in Burma before the end of the year according to a company source.
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Dhaka: Bangladesh troops seized rifles and ammunition among more weapons believed to have been hidden by Myanmar rebels in a forest between the two countries, officials said on Friday.
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August 29: Bangladesh troops seized thousands of rounds of ammunition on Monday in a forest near the country’s border with Myanmar in the latest of a series of weapons and ammunition hauls, security officials said.
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Berlin: German engineering firm Deutz is under investigation for allegedly breaking an embargo on supplying weapons to Myanmar, the prosecutor’s office in Cologne said on Friday.

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Berlin: German engineering firm Deutz is under investigation for allegedly breaking an embargo on supplying weapons to Myanmar, the prosecutor’s office in Cologne said on Friday.

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Berlin: German engineering firm Deutz is under investigation for allegedly breaking an embargo on supplying weapons to Myanmar, the prosecutor’s office in Cologne said on Friday.

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Dhaka: The Bangladesh military authority confiscated 183 sophisticated weapons and 24,144 rounds of ammunition from areas near the Burma border during last year.

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Dhaka: According to a recent report of Jane’s Intelligence Review (JIR), a leading world magazine, an arms cache seized last year in Chittagong seaport was shipped from Hong Kong, where more weapons were added to the collection , then shipped on to Singapore before being brought to Bangladesh.

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Dhaka: According to a recent report of Jane’s Intelligence Review (JIR), a leading world magazine, an arms cache seized last year in Chittagong seaport was shipped from Hong Kong, where more weapons were added to the collection , then shipped on to Singapore before being brought to Bangladesh.

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Dhaka: According to a recent report of Jane’s Intelligence Review (JIR), a leading world magazine, an arms cache seized last year in Chittagong seaport was shipped from Hong Kong, where more weapons were added to the collection , then shipped on to Singapore before being brought to Bangladesh.

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Moscow: Russia sold six billion dollars (4.6 billion euros) of weapons last year, the director of Moscow’s military-technological cooperation service, Mikhail Dmitriev, was quoted as saying Tuesday by the ITAR-TASS news agency.

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Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) recovered a number of sophisticated arms and ammunitions from the Burma-Bangladesh border on January 6, according to a local news agency.

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Burmese authorities in Tachilek, across Maesai, recently uncovered a cache of arms believed to be on the way to the far-flung Indian border, writes Tai Touch from Chiangrai: (more…)

Dhaka: The Bangladesh Army and local security forces last week seized another several hauls of illegal arms in the regions bordering Burma during a joint operation, said an official report.
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Brussels: An international lobby group backed by Tibet rights activists called on the European Union Friday to retain an arms ban on China imposed after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
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