Singapore will investigate allegations that a local trading company was linked to North Korean exports of rockets to military-ruled Myanmar, the foreign affairs ministry said Thursday. (more…)
China has exported two 16 PA6 shipborne diesel engines to Myanmar to be fitted on its navy’s indigenous patrol ships, a representative of the German MAN Diesel Co., which designed the original engines, has confirmed.
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Bullets used in the recent Rangoon murder case which killed five are the product of the Defense Industry, according to sources close to government. (more…)
Burma will send an official delegation to Asia’s largest arms fair, Defexpo, which will be held from Saturday to Tuesday in New Delhi, India. (more…)
Burma’s military government, the SPDC, has according to reports from the UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch and the BBC, killed unarmed civilian protesters, recruited child soldiers, tortured, raped and enslaved its citizens and razed 3000 villages to the ground in the past 10 years. (more…)
A blog by Burmese exiles in Thailand (Vimutti) has published photos of new military vehicles delivered to Burma from China on 15 January. The vans are the same model that was used to transport soldiers and prisoners during September’s crackdown. However, Chinese diplomats insist they are working hard to get the Junta to negotiate with the opposition and to make efforts in terms of human rights. Kio, our Observer for Burma, comments on the situation. (more…)
Shweli: About 100 Chinese manufactured military trucks have been arriving on the Sino-Burma border, Jie Gao since yesterday. These ‘First Automobile Works’ (FAW) trucks are to be handed over to the Burma Army.
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Local authorities seized a Toyota Hilux light truck transporting 50 rifles and ammunition last Friday when it was travelling along Ching Shwe Haw- Theinni ( Hsenwi) Road in northern Shan Sate. (more…)
Several military trucks are believed to have been supplied to the Burmese junta by China. They were seen arriving on the Sino-Burmese border town of Ruili this morning, a local eyewitness said.
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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.
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.
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.