Lo hsing han biography sample

Myanmar businessman and drug trafficker (1935–2013)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lo.

Lo Hsing Han or Law Sit Han (Burmese: လော်စစ်ဟန်, IPA:[lɔ̀sɪʔhàɰ̃]; traditional Chinese: 羅星漢; simplified Chinese: 罗星汉; pinyin: Luó Xīnghàn; c. 1930s – July 6, 2013) was a Burmese businessman and drug trafficker.

He later became a major business tycoon across Burma, with financial ties to Singapore. He was an ethnic Kokang-Chinese.^[5] His spouse, Zhang Xiaowen, is a Chinese citizen and native of Gengma County in Yunnan.^[4]

Rise and fall

Lo Hsing Han was born poor in Kokang district.^[6] He reportedly started his opium-trafficking career as chief of a local militia called Ka Kwe Ye (KKY)^[7] set up with the encouragement of General Ne Win to fight the Communists.^[8] By the early 1970s, he was an important figure in the Asian drug trade, particularly in the trafficking of "China white" he