China also showcased new mobile radar units, unmanned drones and helicopters equipment state-run TV announcers said would be useful for the "new information-based environment."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

"Myanmar will be an important new market for the global mobile industry, " Vodafone and China Mobile said in their statement.

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Details of the meeting were scant, but a China Mobile spokesman said it was regarding "matters of co-operation" in the region.

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Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile's chairman, said that the company had "made positive strides" in 2011 against the backdrop of China's "steady and fast economic growth".

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