Myanmar exports machines to RI

Myanmar exports machines to RI

YANGON (DPA): Myanmar has started exporting locally produced barbed wire-making machines to Indonesia, news reports said on Sunday.

State Peace and Development Council Second Secretary Lt. Gen. Tin Oo on Saturday presided over a ceremony marking the first shipment of two such machines made by the Luthit Factory, said the New Light of Myanmar newspaper.

Tin Oo said he took pride in the export of the barbed wire machines by Luthit Company, which is owned by Myanmar entrepreneur Yan Aung.

Myanmar has been run by a military junta since a brutal crackdown on prodemocracy demonstrators in September 1988. It was unclear from government-run news reports what the local market was for barbed wire, a product usually associated with prisons and other forms of security measures.