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It is not S 75M. It is Volga-2: upgraded S 75
Almaz-Antey S-75-2/S-75M3 Volga-2 Upgrade
Almaz-Antey launched in 2001 the Volga-2/2A package of technology insertion upgrades for the legacy S-75/75M designs, using digital components previously used in the S-300PMU1/2 / SA-20 Gargoyle.
Russian sources claim the following enhancements to the design via the use of new digital components: improved countermeasures resistance for the missile uplink and radar; automatic tracking modes for targets, extended kinematic range via better control law design, and cope with adverse ECM environments.
Specific claims include:
- The ability to acquire and track targets, and guide missiles, when subjected to noise jamming intensities of 2000 W/MHz produced by a standoff jammer at 100 km range.
- Increased clutter and chaff rejection performance.
- Extended missile kinematic range to 60 km.
- Maintain target tracks in the event of temporary signal loss.
- Automatically acquire targets.
- Reduced automatic target tracking error to 0.02 mrad.
- Estimate target altitude relative to horizon to improve Pk against low flying targets.
- Reduced crew complement.
- Reduced power consumption by 40%.
- Improved MTBF.
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Telecoms in Myanmar: Mobile mania | The Economist
Mobile mania
One of the last great “unphoned” territories opens up
Jan 24th 2015 | BAGO AND YANGON | From the print edition
Mobile mania
One of the last great “unphoned” territories opens up
Jan 24th 2015 | BAGO AND YANGON | From the print edition
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ON THE outskirts of Bago, a scruffy town in southern Myanmar, a tall, pale Scandinavian-looking man squints up at a four-legged telecoms mast that has recently sprouted next to a mud track. He is Petter Furberg, the boss of the Burmese operations of Telenor, a Norwegian mobile-telecoms operator. He concludes that more towers will be needed to provide the town with adequate coverage, and asks his contractors to put up some more. The job done, Telenor switched on its service in Bago on January 13th.
Myanmar, with a bigger population than Spain, is one of the last great “unphoned” countries. In 2013 its military-backed government invited bids for the right to build its first modern mobile networks. The services that Telenor and Ooredoo, a Qatari rival, began to roll out last year are a crucial step towards reanimating an economy anaesthetised by five decades of dictatorship. Studies by Ericsson, a network-equipment supplier and McKinsey, a consulting firm, suggest that Myanmar’s mobile roll-out could create more than 90,000 new jobs and help to sustain annual economic growth of 8%-plus.
Locals once paid $1,500 each for SIM cards raffled by the state network, and coverage was scant. Now a SIM costs just $1.50, and new towers are popping up everywhere. Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications, the state-run incumbent, is transforming itself in partnership with KDDI and Sumitomo, two Japanese firms. Yatanarpon, a domestic provider of fixed-line telephony, will soon join the brawl in partnership with Viettel, a mobile-service provider from Vietnam.
In contrast to India, where price wars among around a dozen operators have sapped their ability to invest in increasing penetration rates, Myanmar is betting that having four participants will provide just enough competition, while making it attractive enough for the operators to invest in the roll-out. The plan is that within five years the four operators will between them be reaching 90% of the population.
Since Telenor lost its domestic monopoly in the 1990s it has rediscovered the Viking spirit of adventure, launching into foreign markets ranging from Bulgaria to Bangladesh. It now has about 180m customers in 13 countries and, through a stake in VimpelCom, a Russian operator, a foothold in another 13 countries. But this is the first time it has gone up against Ooredoo, a brash outfit owned by the government of Qatar. Known for years as Qtel, Ooredoo did not venture abroad until 2005. It is now one of the world’s fastest-growing mobile firms, with 90m customers, mostly spread across north Africa and the Middle East, including Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
Ooredoo has started with gusto. Its noisy headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial capital, already has more than 1,000 staff. The firm has rented billboards across the city and sponsored the national football league. It boasts that it is offering whizzy “3G” data services throughout its network, bringing fast internet to people who have never before owned a phone.
Telenor’s approach is leaner. Its share price dipped when its bid was accepted, as investors digested the risks. The firm has since promised to complete the roll-out with little more than $1 billion of capital, and pledged that the venture will break even in three years. It has hired only half as many people as Ooredoo, and in some places it will start by offering only slower “2G” services. Mr Furberg argues that many Burmese cannot yet afford 3G handsets. When they can, upgrading services will not cost much.
For now neither company is struggling to attract customers. Ooredoo signed up 1m people within three weeks of launching in Yangon; Telenor snagged half a million in one day. The promotional umbrellas they have been giving away—red for Ooredoo, blue for Telenor—now shelter hawkers and tea shops on every corner.
This invasion adds to the sense of a city facing enormous change. Women still staff the metal telephone kiosks which dot its pavements, guarding grubby wired handsets, but SIM sellers now outnumber them. A teenager peddling SIMs from behind a white plastic table says he is making around 20,000 kyat ($19) a day, more than many taxi drivers earn.
The roll-out will bring social upheaval. Ross Cormack, Ooredoo’s boss in Myanmar, reckons the number of Facebook users there has roughly doubled since his network launched. Ooredoo has promised to give free tools and training to 30,000 rural women to help them sell SIMs and airtime to their neighbours. Romain Caillaud of Vriens & Partners, a political and business consulting firm, says smartphones are already helping small farmers to improve productivity and outwit grasping middlemen by checking price information online.
For other foreign firms mulling an entry to Myanmar, the mobile roll-out illustrates some of the trials they may face. Ooredoo has weathered a boycott proposed by hardline Buddhists who fear the Qatari firm will somehow embolden Myanmar’s Muslim minority. Telenor has sometimes had to stop the contractors building its towers from using child labour. Exorbitant commercial rents in Yangon, on a par with those in Singapore and Manhattan, have forced some of the firms’ foreign suppliers to base themselves outside the city. The low capacity of fibre-optic cables in and out of the country inhibits the growth of data services of all types.
Getting permission to build telecoms towers is a persistent problem. Telenor and Ooredoo will probably each need about 8,000 base stations to cover the country, of which they have as yet built only a fraction. In some places the volume and complexity of applications has overwhelmed local planning authorities. In others officials have delayed approvals in the hope of receiving a bribe. Then again, the two firms have made things harder for themselves by failing to share their towers, as they had said they would.
However, the biggest challenge for Myanmar’s mobile firms is meeting the overwhelming demand from consumers starved of modern luxuries for the past half-century. On its launch day, Ooredoo received more than 800,000 calls to its customer-support centre, many times more than it could answer. Telenor’s Mr Furberg says he cannot go anywhere without hearing the same two demands: more network coverage and faster speeds.
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Myanmar Navy newly built and comissioned 27 Ft speed boat.. name nga mann (shark)
@alaungphaya how many of this we have.? bro..
@alaungphaya how many of this we have.? bro..
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not sure bro. i'm not really a military guy. i just follow mmmilitary when it comes to that stuff. I did see our MiG 29s and F7's flying back to Mingalardon after independence day though
There is total of 8 Boats. 4 launched in 2014 and another 4 in 2015 according to the myanmar navy Facebook page.
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i think these're totally different with previous Nga Mann.. Newly design and built..?
BTW , Welcome bro.. Now we have total 5 Myanmar Members here.. @Myanmar @alaungphaya @dragunov87 and u..
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nice. welcome to the club of the stickies
thz for ur warmly welcome the newbies like us... bro
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If it's real.. good for Myanmar to get a new energy source..
Tycoon Tay Za announces uranium purchase
January 21, 2015 by Thiha
Tay Za, chairman of Htoo Group of Companies, said at a press release at his residence on January 19 that he has purchased uranium-bearing ores weighing 3.5 visses.
He said he brought the ores at a price of Ks 20 million per viss from lapidaries Aung Naing from Mogok and Nyunt Wai from Phone-Kan village, about 35 miles from Mogok, where the stones were found. He paid a total of Ks 50 million for the ores.
He said he bought the ores 10 days ago and sent them to the Ministry of Science and Technology a week ago to check whether or not they bear uranium.
He pledged to inform the media of the laboratory results. He also told reporters that he is now suffering from uranium radiation.
“I have a burning desire for the security of the country. And I want to do something beneficial for the country. Security is very crucial for all countries in the world. As far as I know, business people from the US always extend a helping hand to the country’s security. So our country should follow in the steps of others,” he added.
Source: ELEVEN MYANMAR
Myanmar Among Most Preferred Destinations for New Factories in ASEAN: Baker & McKenzie
January 23, 2015 by Thiha
Myanmar and Indonesia came out as the most favoured destinations for new factories over the next five years, followed by the Philippines and Vietnam, a new Baker & McKenzie report revealed.
“Re-drawing the ASEAN map,” based on a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit in late 2014 on behalf of Baker & McKenzie, asked 171 business leaders at large global multinationals for their views on the formation of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and how it is impacting their strategy.
The report shows Myanmar and Indonesia stand out as the countries where manufacturing investment will grow quickest, with the number of factories in Myanmar to grow from currently zero to 27 by 2018 among companies surveyed.
That number in Indonesia is expected to rise by nearly 70 percent over the next five years, while Vietnam and the Philippines are also poised to gain considerable manufacturing investment.
The Baker & McKenzie report also reveals that companies are re-adjusting their manufacturing strategy, both consolidating their operations to take advantage of economies of scale as well as fragmenting their value chains to put different parts of the manufacturing process in places where local cost structures and skills are most appropriate.
There remains concern that the ASEAN single market strategy, which allows free flow of goods and labour within the region, may hurt local small and medium businesses as they lack financing and advanced technology as opposed to their superior foreign counterparts.
However, Chris Hughes, managing partner of Baker & McKenzie in Yangon, doesn’t think that’s going to be the case. “While it’s no doubt true that some companies may find it harder to adapt to a more open and regionalised environment there will be opportunities for many more firms to access bigger and new markets, skills, knowhow and capital and flourish,” he told Myanmar Business Today via email.
“The experience of increasing openness and economic engagement with overseas investors and trading partners over the last few years has already delivered many major benefits – I think the case for continuing this process is a good one,” he added.
As manufacturing investors rush into Myanmar with its recent opening up they also face major obstacles, the primary one being the complete lack of infrastructure such as road networks and electricity.
Hughes said a lot of attention is being already given to developing the infrastructure and the government has the support of many other nations and international bodies in this area and there’s a significant role for the private sector to play too.
“While there is much to do, when you see things like the development of the telecommunications system over the last 12 months and projects like the Thilawa SEZ occurring you can see what is possible, and investors gain confidence from that.”
Another critical issue that investors face in Myanmar is its antiquated and dysfunctional legal system. Hughes said a clear and robust legal framework is “fundamental” to attracting and sustaining major investments.
“The common law system that has been in place here for many years does provide a basis for working but it’s correct to say that development is needed. This is well understood by the lawmakers and real progress has been made with further important reforms under way, including in areas of real importance to investors such as banking and finance laws, IP laws, arbitration and company law.
“Practices are changing quite quickly and our clients are finding ways to develop their businesses here but for many it is still a difficult and risky proposition. Continued reform will reduce these risks, build confidence and surely lead to increased investment for the good of the country as a whole,” Hughes said.
The ASEAN integration
A total of 97 percent of the surveyed companies believe the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community will be achieved. This contrasts with a 95 percent affirmation rate in a similar 2012 Baker & McKenzie report “Riding the ASEAN elephant: How business is responding to an unusual animal?”
However, ASEAN has a tricky mix of developed, emerging and least developed economies and the countries do have to tackle the disparity to make a successful integration happen.
Eugene Lim, head of Baker & McKenzie’s Asia Pacific Trade and Commerce Practice, thinks the different levels of development actually bode well for ASEAN.
“It means that the countries have different competitive advantages and which in turn provides greater economic depth to ASEAN as a region,” he told Myanmar Business Today via email.
“To illustrate, Cambodia and Myanmar may have cheaper labour costs and infrastructure that does not currently allow for manufacturing of high tech goods. However, they would still be able to engage in more labour intensive manufacturing activities compared to other more established manufacturing hubs like Thailand and Malaysia. Singapore may have much high costs structures but also more managerial expertise, which would make it a regional headquarter location.”
Lim said the complex mix of different economies and different stages of economic development can, with careful and considered planning, allow for businesses to site various functions in locations which make best use of the local advantages.
“It allows cross-border businesses to organise and optimise their operations very efficiently to best tap the Asian markets,” he said.
The survey showed 88 percent of the surveyed companies indicate ASEAN integration is important to their strategic planning compared with 83 percent in 2012, and 76 percent have a strategy oriented around the ASEAN.
ASEAN is home to nearly 10 percent of the world’s population with more than 600 million people and currently ranks as the world’s seventh largest economy. It is poised to become the fifth largest economy by 2018, with an expected annual average growth rate of 5.6 percent between 2013 and 2018, surpassing mature economies such as the United States, the European Union and Japan.
Tycoon Tay Za announces uranium purchase
January 21, 2015 by Thiha
Tay Za, chairman of Htoo Group of Companies, said at a press release at his residence on January 19 that he has purchased uranium-bearing ores weighing 3.5 visses.
He said he brought the ores at a price of Ks 20 million per viss from lapidaries Aung Naing from Mogok and Nyunt Wai from Phone-Kan village, about 35 miles from Mogok, where the stones were found. He paid a total of Ks 50 million for the ores.
He said he bought the ores 10 days ago and sent them to the Ministry of Science and Technology a week ago to check whether or not they bear uranium.
He pledged to inform the media of the laboratory results. He also told reporters that he is now suffering from uranium radiation.
“I have a burning desire for the security of the country. And I want to do something beneficial for the country. Security is very crucial for all countries in the world. As far as I know, business people from the US always extend a helping hand to the country’s security. So our country should follow in the steps of others,” he added.
Source: ELEVEN MYANMAR
Myanmar Among Most Preferred Destinations for New Factories in ASEAN: Baker & McKenzie
January 23, 2015 by Thiha
Myanmar and Indonesia came out as the most favoured destinations for new factories over the next five years, followed by the Philippines and Vietnam, a new Baker & McKenzie report revealed.
“Re-drawing the ASEAN map,” based on a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit in late 2014 on behalf of Baker & McKenzie, asked 171 business leaders at large global multinationals for their views on the formation of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and how it is impacting their strategy.
The report shows Myanmar and Indonesia stand out as the countries where manufacturing investment will grow quickest, with the number of factories in Myanmar to grow from currently zero to 27 by 2018 among companies surveyed.
That number in Indonesia is expected to rise by nearly 70 percent over the next five years, while Vietnam and the Philippines are also poised to gain considerable manufacturing investment.
The Baker & McKenzie report also reveals that companies are re-adjusting their manufacturing strategy, both consolidating their operations to take advantage of economies of scale as well as fragmenting their value chains to put different parts of the manufacturing process in places where local cost structures and skills are most appropriate.
There remains concern that the ASEAN single market strategy, which allows free flow of goods and labour within the region, may hurt local small and medium businesses as they lack financing and advanced technology as opposed to their superior foreign counterparts.
However, Chris Hughes, managing partner of Baker & McKenzie in Yangon, doesn’t think that’s going to be the case. “While it’s no doubt true that some companies may find it harder to adapt to a more open and regionalised environment there will be opportunities for many more firms to access bigger and new markets, skills, knowhow and capital and flourish,” he told Myanmar Business Today via email.
“The experience of increasing openness and economic engagement with overseas investors and trading partners over the last few years has already delivered many major benefits – I think the case for continuing this process is a good one,” he added.
As manufacturing investors rush into Myanmar with its recent opening up they also face major obstacles, the primary one being the complete lack of infrastructure such as road networks and electricity.
Hughes said a lot of attention is being already given to developing the infrastructure and the government has the support of many other nations and international bodies in this area and there’s a significant role for the private sector to play too.
“While there is much to do, when you see things like the development of the telecommunications system over the last 12 months and projects like the Thilawa SEZ occurring you can see what is possible, and investors gain confidence from that.”
Another critical issue that investors face in Myanmar is its antiquated and dysfunctional legal system. Hughes said a clear and robust legal framework is “fundamental” to attracting and sustaining major investments.
“The common law system that has been in place here for many years does provide a basis for working but it’s correct to say that development is needed. This is well understood by the lawmakers and real progress has been made with further important reforms under way, including in areas of real importance to investors such as banking and finance laws, IP laws, arbitration and company law.
“Practices are changing quite quickly and our clients are finding ways to develop their businesses here but for many it is still a difficult and risky proposition. Continued reform will reduce these risks, build confidence and surely lead to increased investment for the good of the country as a whole,” Hughes said.
The ASEAN integration
A total of 97 percent of the surveyed companies believe the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community will be achieved. This contrasts with a 95 percent affirmation rate in a similar 2012 Baker & McKenzie report “Riding the ASEAN elephant: How business is responding to an unusual animal?”
However, ASEAN has a tricky mix of developed, emerging and least developed economies and the countries do have to tackle the disparity to make a successful integration happen.
Eugene Lim, head of Baker & McKenzie’s Asia Pacific Trade and Commerce Practice, thinks the different levels of development actually bode well for ASEAN.
“It means that the countries have different competitive advantages and which in turn provides greater economic depth to ASEAN as a region,” he told Myanmar Business Today via email.
“To illustrate, Cambodia and Myanmar may have cheaper labour costs and infrastructure that does not currently allow for manufacturing of high tech goods. However, they would still be able to engage in more labour intensive manufacturing activities compared to other more established manufacturing hubs like Thailand and Malaysia. Singapore may have much high costs structures but also more managerial expertise, which would make it a regional headquarter location.”
Lim said the complex mix of different economies and different stages of economic development can, with careful and considered planning, allow for businesses to site various functions in locations which make best use of the local advantages.
“It allows cross-border businesses to organise and optimise their operations very efficiently to best tap the Asian markets,” he said.
The survey showed 88 percent of the surveyed companies indicate ASEAN integration is important to their strategic planning compared with 83 percent in 2012, and 76 percent have a strategy oriented around the ASEAN.
ASEAN is home to nearly 10 percent of the world’s population with more than 600 million people and currently ranks as the world’s seventh largest economy. It is poised to become the fifth largest economy by 2018, with an expected annual average growth rate of 5.6 percent between 2013 and 2018, surpassing mature economies such as the United States, the European Union and Japan.
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yeah keep posting. by the way, as your eastern neighbor is getting subs, what´s about your plan to acquire some? we are living in a terrible world, isn´t it?thz for ur warmly welcome the newbies like us... bro
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Yeah... bro.. we already got training from Pakitstan , India and Russia since 2008.. but still need sub base facilaties and some sub due to our economy.. after we focused on economy and infrastructures for a few year., hope to fill full our dream..
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Myanmar becomes battleground for growing China-US rivalry
January 26, 2015 by Thiha
China is feeling the heat in Myanmar — a country which is central to Beijing’s energy security and Silk Road plans — following Washington’s push to entrench itself in Nay Pyi Daw.
The website Duowei run by overseas Chinese is reporting that China’s focus on deepening ties with Latin American countries, in Washington’s backyard, has impacted on the decision by the United States to energise its engagement with Myanmar.
Analysts say Yunnan—China’s strategic province, which is one of the starting points of President Xi Jinping’s 21st century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) project could be the ultimate target of American inroads in Myanmar. Yunnan is China’s gateway to Southeast Asia, sharing common borders with Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.
The contest for influence seems to be peaking in the run-up to the October elections in Myanmar, whose results are likely to define the country’s geopolitical gradient.
According to Duowei, talks on Human Rights between the U.S. and Myanmar took place between January 11-15. But apart from the Assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour Tom Malinowski, who headed the delegation, two senior officials from the U.S. Pacific Command– Lieutenant General Anthony Crutchfield, as well as deputy assistant secretary of defence for East Asia, David F Helvey also joined the dialogue. Gen. Crutchfield also paid a visit to Myitkyina in Kachin state, the region embroiled in a civil war.
A Chinese consular delegation is currently visiting Myitkyina , to ascertain whether some Chinese citizens were trapped in the Kachin state amid armed clashes.
Observers say that any deterioration of the situation following an intensification of fighting between the Myanmar’s government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) should worry China, as it could trigger a flood of refugees towards Yunnan, which is not far from that zone.
The website Sina Military Network is reporting that should Myanmar’s army attack Pharkant, one of the main Kachin bases, which is close to the Chinese border, it could trigger refugee flows into Yunnan, a situation similar to 2009, when there was an outpouring of refugees, following an attack by government troops in the Kokang Special Region, which borders Yunnan.
Any refugee exodus can flare social tensions as the Kachin people belong to the same ethnic group as the Jingpo people who reside in the Yunnan province, and would be naturally empathetic to those displaced across the border. Instability in northern Myanmar also has economic implications as China is a major market for jade, gemstones and teak, which originates in the Kachin hills.
For China, a loss of turf in Myanmar can remove one of hinges of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the MSR —both essential to integrate the economies of Asia and Europe, with China as the hub. China has signed an agreement to build a railroad between Myanmar’s port of Kyaukpyu on the Bay of Bengal to its Yunnan province. But the implementation of the project, which would help China to evade the Malacca straits—an international trade artery in waters dominated by the U.S. —is encountering serious difficulties. These obstructions could multiply if a pro-Washington government takes charge in Nay Pyi Daw, following the elections.
Kyaukpyu is also the starting point of a gas and oil pipeline that heads towards Yunnan. Analysts say that Beijing is already wary of local protests against the project, which could multiply if an unfriendly government takes charge in Myanmar.
Source: The Hindu
January 26, 2015 by Thiha
China is feeling the heat in Myanmar — a country which is central to Beijing’s energy security and Silk Road plans — following Washington’s push to entrench itself in Nay Pyi Daw.
The website Duowei run by overseas Chinese is reporting that China’s focus on deepening ties with Latin American countries, in Washington’s backyard, has impacted on the decision by the United States to energise its engagement with Myanmar.
Analysts say Yunnan—China’s strategic province, which is one of the starting points of President Xi Jinping’s 21st century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) project could be the ultimate target of American inroads in Myanmar. Yunnan is China’s gateway to Southeast Asia, sharing common borders with Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.
The contest for influence seems to be peaking in the run-up to the October elections in Myanmar, whose results are likely to define the country’s geopolitical gradient.
According to Duowei, talks on Human Rights between the U.S. and Myanmar took place between January 11-15. But apart from the Assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour Tom Malinowski, who headed the delegation, two senior officials from the U.S. Pacific Command– Lieutenant General Anthony Crutchfield, as well as deputy assistant secretary of defence for East Asia, David F Helvey also joined the dialogue. Gen. Crutchfield also paid a visit to Myitkyina in Kachin state, the region embroiled in a civil war.
A Chinese consular delegation is currently visiting Myitkyina , to ascertain whether some Chinese citizens were trapped in the Kachin state amid armed clashes.
Observers say that any deterioration of the situation following an intensification of fighting between the Myanmar’s government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) should worry China, as it could trigger a flood of refugees towards Yunnan, which is not far from that zone.
The website Sina Military Network is reporting that should Myanmar’s army attack Pharkant, one of the main Kachin bases, which is close to the Chinese border, it could trigger refugee flows into Yunnan, a situation similar to 2009, when there was an outpouring of refugees, following an attack by government troops in the Kokang Special Region, which borders Yunnan.
Any refugee exodus can flare social tensions as the Kachin people belong to the same ethnic group as the Jingpo people who reside in the Yunnan province, and would be naturally empathetic to those displaced across the border. Instability in northern Myanmar also has economic implications as China is a major market for jade, gemstones and teak, which originates in the Kachin hills.
For China, a loss of turf in Myanmar can remove one of hinges of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the MSR —both essential to integrate the economies of Asia and Europe, with China as the hub. China has signed an agreement to build a railroad between Myanmar’s port of Kyaukpyu on the Bay of Bengal to its Yunnan province. But the implementation of the project, which would help China to evade the Malacca straits—an international trade artery in waters dominated by the U.S. —is encountering serious difficulties. These obstructions could multiply if a pro-Washington government takes charge in Nay Pyi Daw, following the elections.
Kyaukpyu is also the starting point of a gas and oil pipeline that heads towards Yunnan. Analysts say that Beijing is already wary of local protests against the project, which could multiply if an unfriendly government takes charge in Myanmar.
Source: The Hindu
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Bangladeshis might be your big customer and also indians
I think Thai whores still more attractive than Burmese to BDians.. LOL
Are you talking about BD getting subs?
Subs are not aimed at Burma but to bigger threat. There is a tug of war going on behind the scene with India related to Sub landing station, deep sea port and Chinese proposed investment in deep sea port.
PS: We dont consider Burma is a threat to us but irritant regarding Rohingiya refugee.
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