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Korean police are in the advanced stages of an investigation into the transfer of a Landing Platform Dock (LPD) warship to the Myanmar Navy in 2019, Myanmar Now has learned.

The Myanmar Air Force has ordered several FTC-2000G midrange fighter jets from China, a major arms supplier to the Southeast Asian nation. The Irrawaddy has learned that a group of approximately eight Air Force pilots, eight technicians and at least two armaments officers traveled to China via Kunming in June.

Frangipani plants and coconut trees front the three-story villa on Sentosa Island where Myanmar tycoon Tay Za stays when he’s in Singapore. It’s one of two houses his family owns in a development overlooking the South China Sea known as a playground for the wealthy.

စစ်ကောင်စီနှင့် ပက်သက်ဆက်နွှယ်နေတဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်း စီမံကိန်းများနှင့် ပက်သက်ပြီး ဂျပန်ဘဏ် ၃ ခုကို ဆွေးနွေးမေးမြန်းဖို့ ကုမ္ပဏီအဖွဲ့ အစည်း ၁၆၀ထံ စာပေးပို့ လိုက်တယ်လို့ Justice For Myanmar ကထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်ပါတယ်။

Australia’s Defence Ministry will co-host members of the Myanmar junta at a high-level ASEAN military medicine conference in Brunei next month in what democracy activists have condemned as an “inexcusable” appeasement of war criminals.

For a few tense hours last week, Thai Senator Upakit Pachariyangkun was wanted for arrest in connection with an alleged drug trafficking and money laundering ring operating out of a casino in the Golden Triangle.

Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it has begun building cars at its new plant in Myanmar after the site was put on hold during the country’s military coup. Toyota said the plant is assembling around two Hilux trucks per day, using parts delivered to Myanmar in September.

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The U.S. Treasury imposed on Tuesday sanctions on three Burmese businessmen and their company for allegedly supplying Russian-produced arms to Myanmar's military, which seized power following last year’s coup.

The United States has imposed sanctions on three Myanmar nationals for their role in arms brokering for the country’s coup regime, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Thursday.

Recently declassified Israeli Foreign Ministry documents reveal deep Israeli military ties with Burma, now known as Myanmar, and its significant role in the brutal massacre of the Rohingya Muslims.