Kokang (Burmese: ကိုးကန့်; Chinese: 果敢; pinyin: Guǒgǎn; Wade–Giles: Kuo-kan) is a region in Myanmar. It is located in the northern part of Shan State,...
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Kokang people (Chinese: 果敢華人; pinyin: Guǒgǎn Huárén or 果敢族 (Guǒgǎn zú); Burmese: ကိုးကန့်လူမျိုး) are Mandarin-speaking Han Chinese native to Kokang in...
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Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (redirect from Kokang Democracy Party)
National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) is an armed resistance group in the Kokang region of Myanmar (Burma). The army has existed since 1989, having been...
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The Kokang Self-Administered Zone (Burmese: ကိုးကန့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသ, Chinese: 果敢自治区), as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar...
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Bai Suocheng (category Kokang)
白所成; pinyin: Bái Suǒchéng; Burmese: ပယ်ဆောက်ချိန်; born 1 April 1950) is a Kokang politician from Shan State, Myanmar. He was a former deputy commander of...
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Peng family, related to the Chieftains of Kokang by marriage. He is of Chinese descent, and was born near Kokang's Red Rock River (红石头河, ဟောင်ဆော်ထူးဟော်)...
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The Kokang incident was a violent series of skirmishes that broke out in August 2009 in Kokang in Myanmar's northern Shan State. Several clashes between...
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National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) on Tatmadaw-aligned Kokang Border Guard Forces in Kokang, Myanmar. On February 5, 2021, MNDAA fighters ambushed a...
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Peng Daxun (category Kokang)
Peng Deren (Chinese: 彭德仁; pinyin: Péng Dérén, born 1965), is a Burmese Kokang military leader serving as commander of the Myanmar National Democratic...
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Brotherhood Alliance successfully took control of the strategically important Kokang Self-Administered Zone (SAZ) following their decisive victory in the Battle...
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captured the city of Laukkai in Kokang from the Myanmar military, and soon more than 40,000 people involved in Kokang's fraud factories were returned to...
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The 2015 Kokang offensive was a series of military operations launched by the Myanmar Army in 2015 in Kokang in northern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma)....
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The Chiefdom of Kokang (Chinese: 果敢土司; pinyin: Guǒgǎn Tǔsī), ruled by the Chinese Yang clan, was an autonomous Tusi chiefdom of the Qing dynasty. Its territory...
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Battle of Laukkai (category Kokang)
(MNDAA) encircling and capturing Laukkai, the capital of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone (Kokang SAZ) in northeastern Myanmar. The battle was part of the...
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Chinese people in Myanmar (section Kokang)
haka (အင်္ကျီတိုဟကာ) respectively. In Upper Myanmar and Shan Hills, the Kokang people predominate there. The Panthay have long been considered distinct...
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Myanmar conflict (section Kokang)
in southern Shan State. The SSIA, the SNUF, and the Kokang Force (a local army consisting of Kokang Chinese) agreed to merge into the Shan State Army (SSA)...
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warlord and the sister of Sao Edward Yang Kyein Tsai, the saopha (chief) of Kokang, a state in post-independent Burma from 1949 to 1959. Olive Yang was born...
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National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), an armed resistance group in the Kokang region of Myanmar. The MNTJP cooperates politically and militarily with...
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The Kokang Democracy and Unity Party (KDUP) is a political party in Myanmar (Burma) representing the interests of the Kokang Chinese and the administration...
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1918–1971) was the last traditional ruler (saopha) of the Chiefdom of Kokang from 1949, at the death of his father, saopha Sao Yang Wen Pin, until he...
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forces after the start of battles in Kokang Self-Administered Zone. He has served as the acting chairman of Kokang Self-Administered Zone (SAZ) and also...
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Australia Red Rock River (Ontario) in Ontario, Canada Red Rock River (Kokang) in Kokang Special Region, Burma This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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non-state actors, such as Kokang, also used Kakweye forces in the 20th century, stylizing the forces as a People's Defence Force. The Kokang tycoon and drug trafficker...
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February 13 - 2015 Kokang offensive In the northeast, 47 soldiers were killed in fighting against Kokang rebels. February 14 - 2015 Kokang offensive The Burmese...
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(Mien) Danaw (Danau) Pale Eng (En) Son Khamu (Khmu) Kaw (Akha-E-Kaw Kokant (Kokang) Khamti Shan Hkun (Khün) Taungyo Danu Palaung Man Zi/Myaung Zi (Hmong) Yin...
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Anti-colonialist Pheung Kya-shin 彭家声 (Yunnanese) (born 1931), Leader of Kokang Special Region and Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar National Democratic Alliance...
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states. In Operation 1027, anti-SAC forces seized Laukkai, the capital of Kokang Self-Administered Zone, in early January 2024. Northern Shan State fighting...
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ethnic Kokang-Chinese. His spouse, Zhang Xiaowen, is a Chinese citizen and native of Gengma County in Yunnan. Lo Hsing Han was born poor in Kokang district...
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Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA): Also known as the Kokang Army, a Kokang nationalist group active in Myanmar. Karen National Liberation Army...
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of Kokang Sao Edward Yang Kyein Tsai in 1951. It is built as an 11-meter-high pagoda that engraved with the names and inscriptions of the Kokang soldiers...
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