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Pretty quiet these days. I hope everyone’s safe and staying at home.
 
Myanmar Army medical units brace for Covid 19 Coronavirus.

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Suzuki to build new plant in Myanmar
Suzuki Thilawa Motor Co Ltd, Suzuki Motor Corp’s subsidiary for assembly and sales of automobiles in Myanmar, will construct a new automobile plant that will conduct welding, painting, and assembly of automobiles, Suzuki Motor announced on Monday.

Suzuki Thilawa is currently assembling vehicles from semi knocked down (SKD) kits where partially assembled parts of a product are put together.




The Japanese automaker says it plans to upgrade its operations in Myanmar to assembling completely knocked down (CKD) vehicles from completely non-assembled parts.



Suzuki says the work will involve painting, welding and final assembly of vehicles, which is why the new facility is required.

The company will spend an estimated ¥12 billion (K150 trillion) to build the facility which is expected to start operations by September next year. The plant, which will also be located in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone southeast of Yangon, is projected to have an annual production capacity of 40,000 units.


With the construction of the new plant, Suzuki says it will be better placed to meet the growing needs of the automobile market in Myanmar.


Suzuki has a long history in Myanmar, dating back to 1998 with the establishment of a local joint venture that started production of motorcycles and automobiles in 1999.The company currently has two plants in Myanmar sited in the South Dagon Industrial Zone and Thilawa Special Economic Zone that produce four models – the Carry small truck, Ciaz compact sedan, Ertiga MPV, and Swift subcomnpact.




Overall Myanmar’s trade volumes rise despite virus pandemic

AUNG LOON 19 MAR 2020
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Mar Naw/The Myanmar Times


Myanmar’s trade volumes have risen in the current fiscal year 2019-20 despite the conronavirus pandemic sweeping the world, the Ministry of Commerce announced.

The ministry’s figures indicate that Myanmar’s trade volume rose by some US$2.7 billion (K3.76 trillion) so far this year compared with the same period last year.







“The country’s exports including via border trading up to March 6 totalled US$8 billion and imports US$9 billion. Imports increased by US$1.2 billion and exports US$1.5 billion for compared to the same period last year, indicating that trading increased overall despite the pandemic,” said Ministry of Commerce Director General U Min Min.

He added that goods are again flowing across the border with China at the Muse border trade area, with volumes reaching US$8 to US$10 million a day.

“In the past, the volume was not even close to US$1 million. The number of trucks used to fewer than 100 back then, but now, it has increased to 1,000 vehicles coming and going across the country. On March 13, there were 600 trucks leaving and 500 trucks entering the country,” U Min Min said.

However, he said that exports of fisheries products, especially live crabs and lobsters sent overseas by air, remained lower than before. Exports of cattle were also lower than in the same period a year ago while corn exports to Thailand were hit by currency fluctuations.
 
Suzuki to build new plant in Myanmar
Suzuki Thilawa Motor Co Ltd, Suzuki Motor Corp’s subsidiary for assembly and sales of automobiles in Myanmar, will construct a new automobile plant that will conduct welding, painting, and assembly of automobiles, Suzuki Motor announced on Monday.

Suzuki Thilawa is currently assembling vehicles from semi knocked down (SKD) kits where partially assembled parts of a product are put together.




The Japanese automaker says it plans to upgrade its operations in Myanmar to assembling completely knocked down (CKD) vehicles from completely non-assembled parts.



Suzuki says the work will involve painting, welding and final assembly of vehicles, which is why the new facility is required.

The company will spend an estimated ¥12 billion (K150 trillion) to build the facility which is expected to start operations by September next year. The plant, which will also be located in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone southeast of Yangon, is projected to have an annual production capacity of 40,000 units.


With the construction of the new plant, Suzuki says it will be better placed to meet the growing needs of the automobile market in Myanmar.


Suzuki has a long history in Myanmar, dating back to 1998 with the establishment of a local joint venture that started production of motorcycles and automobiles in 1999.The company currently has two plants in Myanmar sited in the South Dagon Industrial Zone and Thilawa Special Economic Zone that produce four models – the Carry small truck, Ciaz compact sedan, Ertiga MPV, and Swift subcomnpact.




Overall Myanmar’s trade volumes rise despite virus pandemic

AUNG LOON 19 MAR 2020
trade_25.jpg

Mar Naw/The Myanmar Times


Myanmar’s trade volumes have risen in the current fiscal year 2019-20 despite the conronavirus pandemic sweeping the world, the Ministry of Commerce announced.

The ministry’s figures indicate that Myanmar’s trade volume rose by some US$2.7 billion (K3.76 trillion) so far this year compared with the same period last year.







“The country’s exports including via border trading up to March 6 totalled US$8 billion and imports US$9 billion. Imports increased by US$1.2 billion and exports US$1.5 billion for compared to the same period last year, indicating that trading increased overall despite the pandemic,” said Ministry of Commerce Director General U Min Min.

He added that goods are again flowing across the border with China at the Muse border trade area, with volumes reaching US$8 to US$10 million a day.

“In the past, the volume was not even close to US$1 million. The number of trucks used to fewer than 100 back then, but now, it has increased to 1,000 vehicles coming and going across the country. On March 13, there were 600 trucks leaving and 500 trucks entering the country,” U Min Min said.

However, he said that exports of fisheries products, especially live crabs and lobsters sent overseas by air, remained lower than before. Exports of cattle were also lower than in the same period a year ago while corn exports to Thailand were hit by currency fluctuations.
I have a feeling the Myanmar economy would boom after the corona pandemic has clear off.
 
Yes definitely given that a lot of the workforce won’t be affected.

however, I have a strong feeling that the reason why the cases of corona went undetected so Long is due to the hardiness nature of our people.

it is due to the poor hygiene surrounding the common person in Myanmar that the daily exposure to various types of diseases, some may even be new kinds that allowed the people to evolve a hardier immune system.

that is probably why the first two cases were those coming back from overseas especially due to the fact that the immune system has adjusted to their own local viruses.

hence, Covid-19 which causes punomenia to those in more developed countries might just pass off as a seasonal flu for us.

this is just a theory on why it took so Long to actually find a case in Myanmar. May or may not be true as we need to conduct more research into it.
 
Yes definitely given that a lot of the workforce won’t be affected.

however, I have a strong feeling that the reason why the cases of corona went undetected so Long is due to the hardiness nature of our people.

it is due to the poor hygiene surrounding the common person in Myanmar that the daily exposure to various types of diseases, some may even be new kinds that allowed the people to evolve a hardier immune system.

that is probably why the first two cases were those coming back from overseas especially due to the fact that the immune system has adjusted to their own local viruses.

hence, Covid-19 which causes punomenia to those in more developed countries might just pass off as a seasonal flu for us.

this is just a theory on why it took so Long to actually find a case in Myanmar. May or may not be true as we need to conduct more research into it.
Simply, we do not have enough test kit.
 
Myanmar to receive first batch of Chinese SY-400 short-range ballistic missiles

Myanmar (formerly Burma) is going to receive the first batch of Chinese-made SY-400 short-range ballistic missiles in very soon after a series of tough negotiations for years. Myanmar will also get some kinds of technology transfer for SY-400 along with some amount of loan to cover as the result of prolonged discussions.

The SY-400 also called DF-12A system in standard configuration has eight containers (canisters) with solid-fuel missiles. Missiles are factory-fitted into these containers and can be stored for years without requiring additional maintenance. Missiles are launched vertically and have a range of about 400 km. SY-400 can use different types of warheads.

SY-400 missile is equipped with GPS/INS guidance system. It is steered to the intended target in the initial flight phase by four control surfaces and stabilizing fins. The missile uses a low lowering rate to extend the range. Multiple missiles can be aimed at different targets.

The missile launcher units are mounted at the rear of on Wanshan 8x8 high-mobility military truck chassis. The truck is powered by a Deutz Diesel engine developing 517 hp. It can run at a maximum road speed of 75 km/h with a maximum cruising range of 650 km.

In December 2017, it was announced that Qatar Armed Forces has acquired SY-400 short-range ballistic missile system from China. The missile system was showcased the same year during the rehearsal of the Qatar National Day parade.

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it seem like more realistic now. also covering in VOA news.

တာတုိပစ္ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒုံးက်ည္ တရုတ္က ျမန္မာကုိ မၾကာခင္ တင္ပုိ႔ေတာ့မည္

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SY-400 (credit-Military Cognizance)

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တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံထုတ္ SY-400 တာတိုပစ္ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒံုးက်ည္ ပထမ အသုတ္ကို ျမန္မာတပ္မေတာ္က မၾကာခင္ လက္ခံရယူဖို႔ရွိေနပါတယ္။ဒီဒံုးက်ည္စနစ္ကို ရရွိဖို႔အတြက္ ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံၾကား ေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြ ႏွစ္နဲ႔ခ်ီၿပီး ဆက္တိုက္ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရတယ္လို႔ ကမၻာ့လက္နက္ေရာင္း၀ယ္ေရးသတင္းေတြကို ေဖၚျပေနတဲ့ သတင္း၀က္ဘ္ဆိုဒ္မွာ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။

တရုတ္ထုတ္ SY-400 တာတိုပစ္ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒံုးက်ည္၀ယ္ယူရာမွာ နည္းပညာပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာနဲ႕ ေခ်းေငြကိုလည္း ျမန္မာက ရရွိမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္အေနနဲ႔ တာတိုပစ္ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒံုးက်ည္ကို တရုတ္ဆီက ဘယ္အခ်ိန္ကတည္းက ၀ယ္ယူဖို႔ ညွဳိႏႈိင္းခဲ့သလဲဆိုတာကေတာ့ သတင္းမွာ ေဖၚျပမထားပါဘူး။

SY-400 စနစ္ဟာ တာတိုပစ္ဒံုးက်ည္နဲ႔ အတြဲလိုက္ဒံုးပစ္ေလာင္ခ်ာစနစ္ကို တြဲဖက္ထားတဲ့ တစ္မူထူးျခားတဲ့ ဒံုးက်ည္စနစ္တစ္ခုျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ပဲ့ထိန္းစနစ္တပ္ဆင္ထားတဲ့ ဒံုးက်ည္ေတြကို ပစ္ခတ္ႏိုင္စြမ္း ရွိတယ္လို႔ အဲဒီ သတင္းမွာ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္(၄၀၀)ကီလိုမီတာ အကြာအေဝးအထိ ပစ္ခတ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ BP-12A တာတိုပစ္ဒံုးက်ည္စနစ္လည္း ပါ၀င္တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

၂၀၁၇ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလက ကာတာ စစ္တပ္ကေန တရုတ္ထုတ္ SY-400 တာတိုပစ္ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒံုးက်ည္ကို ၀ယ္ယူသံုးစဲြခဲ့တယ္လို႔ အဲဒီသတင္းမွာ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။
 
it seem like more realistic now. also covering in VOA news.

တာတုိပစ္ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒုံးက်ည္ တရုတ္က ျမန္မာကုိ မၾကာခင္ တင္ပုိ႔ေတာ့မည္

07 ဧၿပီ၊ 2020
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SY-400 (credit-Military Cognizance)

(Zawgyi/Unicode)

တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံထုတ္ SY-400 တာတိုပစ္ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒံုးက်ည္ ပထမ အသုတ္ကို ျမန္မာတပ္မေတာ္က မၾကာခင္ လက္ခံရယူဖို႔ရွိေနပါတယ္။ဒီဒံုးက်ည္စနစ္ကို ရရွိဖို႔အတြက္ ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံၾကား ေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြ ႏွစ္နဲ႔ခ်ီၿပီး ဆက္တိုက္ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရတယ္လို႔ ကမၻာ့လက္နက္ေရာင္း၀ယ္ေရးသတင္းေတြကို ေဖၚျပေနတဲ့ သတင္း၀က္ဘ္ဆိုဒ္မွာ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။

တရုတ္ထုတ္ SY-400 တာတိုပစ္ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒံုးက်ည္၀ယ္ယူရာမွာ နည္းပညာပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာနဲ႕ ေခ်းေငြကိုလည္း ျမန္မာက ရရွိမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္အေနနဲ႔ တာတိုပစ္ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒံုးက်ည္ကို တရုတ္ဆီက ဘယ္အခ်ိန္ကတည္းက ၀ယ္ယူဖို႔ ညွဳိႏႈိင္းခဲ့သလဲဆိုတာကေတာ့ သတင္းမွာ ေဖၚျပမထားပါဘူး။

SY-400 စနစ္ဟာ တာတိုပစ္ဒံုးက်ည္နဲ႔ အတြဲလိုက္ဒံုးပစ္ေလာင္ခ်ာစနစ္ကို တြဲဖက္ထားတဲ့ တစ္မူထူးျခားတဲ့ ဒံုးက်ည္စနစ္တစ္ခုျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ပဲ့ထိန္းစနစ္တပ္ဆင္ထားတဲ့ ဒံုးက်ည္ေတြကို ပစ္ခတ္ႏိုင္စြမ္း ရွိတယ္လို႔ အဲဒီ သတင္းမွာ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္(၄၀၀)ကီလိုမီတာ အကြာအေဝးအထိ ပစ္ခတ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ BP-12A တာတိုပစ္ဒံုးက်ည္စနစ္လည္း ပါ၀င္တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

၂၀၁၇ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလက ကာတာ စစ္တပ္ကေန တရုတ္ထုတ္ SY-400 တာတိုပစ္ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒံုးက်ည္ကို ၀ယ္ယူသံုးစဲြခဲ့တယ္လို႔ အဲဒီသတင္းမွာ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။

Is it only me or does anyone thinks that Rumors regarding our military procurement comes true most of the times?
 

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